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می‌نماید او وفا و عشق و جوش ** وانگه او گندم‌نمای جوفروش 1865
- He professes loyalty and love and enthusiasm—and then (after all) he is one who shows wheat and sells barley!
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هر که اندر عشق یابد زندگی ** کفر باشد پیش او جز بندگی
- To any one who finds life in love, aught but (devoted) service would seem infidelity.”
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نیم‌شب آن میر با سی معتمد ** در گشاد حجره‌ی او رای زد
- At midnight the Amír with thirty trusted (officers) set out to open his chamber,
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مشعله بر کرده چندین پهلوان ** جانب حجره روانه شادمان
- And all these valiant men, carrying torches, moved joyfully in that direction,
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که امر سلطانست بر حجره زنیم ** هر یکی همیان زر در کش کنیم
- Saying, “’Tis the Sultan's command: let us raid the room and each of us pocket a purse of gold.”
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آن یکی می‌گفت هی چه جای زر ** از عقیق و لعل گوی و از گهر 1870
- “Hey!” cried one of them, “why trouble about gold?” Talk (rather) of cornelians and rubies and (all sorts of) jewels.
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خاص خاص مخزن سلطان ویست ** بلک اکنون شاه را خود جان ویست
- He is the most privileged (keeper) of the Sultan's treasury: nay, he is now (as dear) to the King (as) life itself.”
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چه محل دارد به پیش این عشیق ** لعل و یاقوت و زمرد یا عقیق
- What worth should rubies and corundums and emeralds or cornelians possess in the eyes of this man (so) beloved (of the King)?
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شاه را بر وی نبودی بد گمان ** تسخری می‌کرد بهر امتحان
- The King had no evil thoughts of him: he was (only) making a mock (of the courtiers) by way of trial.
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پاک می‌دانستش از هر غش و غل ** باز از وهمش همی‌لرزید دل
- He knew him to be free from all deceitfulness and guile; (yet) again his heart was shaken with misgiving,