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زانک خبث ذات او بی‌موجبی ** هست سوی ظلم و عدوان جاذبی
- For, without any cause, his essential malignity pulls him on to (commit) injustice and tyranny.
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هر زمان خواند ترا تا خرگهی ** که در اندازد ترا اندر چهی
- He continually invites thee to a spacious tent in order that he may cast thee into a pit,
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که فلان جا حوض آبست و عیون ** تا در اندازد به حوضت سرنگون
- Saying, “In such and such a place there is a tank of water and (many) fountains,” that he may cast thee headlong into the tank.
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آدمی را با همه وحی و نظر ** اندر افکند آن لعین در شور و شر 2610
- That accursed one caused an Adam, notwithstanding all his inspiration and insight, to fall into woe and bane,
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بی‌گناهی بی‌گزند سابقی ** که رسد او را ز آدم ناحقی
- Without any sin (having been committed against him) and without any previous harm having been wrongfully done to him by Adam.
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گفت روبه آن طلسم سحر بود ** که ترا در چشم آن شیری نمود
- The fox replied, “It was a spell of magic that appeared in your eyes as a lion;
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ورنه من از تو به تن مسکین‌ترم ** که شب و روز اندر آنجا می‌چرم
- Else I am more puny in body than you, and I always feed there by night and day.
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گرنه زان گونه طلسمی ساختی ** هر شکم‌خواری بدانجا تاختی
- If he (the magician) had not wrought a spell of that kind, every famishing (animal) would have run thither.
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یک جهان بی‌نوا پر پیل و ارج ** بی‌طلسمی کی بماندی سبز مرج 2615
- (In) a foodless world full of elephants and rhinoceroses how should the meadow have remained verdant without (the protection of) a spell?
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من ترا خود خواستم گفتن به درس ** که چنان هولی اگر بینی مترس
- Truly, I meant to tell you, by way of instruction, not to be afraid if you should see a terrible thing like that;