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  • قاصرات الطرف آمد آن مدام  ** وین حجاب ظرفها هم‌چون خیام 
  • That wine is (like) the women who look modestly, while these vessels screening it (from view) are like the tents.

  • هست دریا خیمه‌ای در وی حیات  ** بط را لیکن کلاغان را ممات 
  • The great river (too) is (like) a tent, wherein is life for the duck, but death for crows.

  • زهر باشد مار را هم قوت و برگ  ** غیر او را زهر او دردست و مرگ  3295
  • Venom also is the snake's food and provision, (but) its venom is anguish and death to others.

  • صورت هر نعمتی و محنتی  ** هست این را دوزخ آن را جنتی 
  • The form of every blessing and affliction is a Hell to this one, a Paradise to that one.

  • پس همه اجسام و اشیا تبصرون  ** واندرو قوتست و سم لاتبصرون 
  • Therefore (though) ye see all bodies and things, and there is food and poison in them (all)—ye see (it) not.

  • هست هر جسمی چو کاسه و کوزه‌ای  ** اندرو هم قوت و هم دلسوزه‌ای 
  • Every body resembles a bowl or a pot, wherein is both food and a (cause of) heart-burning.

  • کاسه پیدا اندرو پنهان رغد  ** طاعمش داند کزان چه می‌خورد 
  • The bowl is visible, the plenty (contained) in it is hidden: (only) he who tastes it (the contents) knows what he is eating or drinking from it.

  • صورت یوسف چو جامی بود خوب  ** زان پدر می‌خورد صد باده‌ی طروب  3300
  • The form of Joseph was like a beauteous cup: from it his father drank a hundred exhilarating wines.

  • باز اخوان را از آن زهراب بود  ** کان دریشان خشم و کینه می‌فزود 
  • Again, to his brethren (the draught they took) from it was poisoned water which was increasing in them anger and hatred.

  • باز از وی مر زلیخا را سکر  ** می‌کشید از عشق افیونی دگر 
  • Again, to Zalíkhá (the draught she took) from it was (sweet as) sugar: she was quaffing a different opiate from (the hand of) Love.