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من برانم بر تن او ضربتی ** که بود قوادکان را عبرتی 3560
- I will inflict on his body such a blow as will be a warning to base scoundrels.
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با همه سالوس با ما نیز هم ** داد او و صد چو او این دم دهم
- Hypocrisy to all and even to me! I will give him and a hundred like him their due at this moment.”
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خشم خون‌خوارش شده بد سرکشی ** از دهانش می بر آمد آتشی
- His (the Amír's) bloodthirsty wrath had become a rebel: a fire (of rage) was coming up from his mouth.
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دو بار دست و پای امیر را بوسیدن و لابه کردن شفیعان و همسایگان زاهد
- How the neighbours of the ascetic, who were interceding for him, kissed the hands and feet of the Amír and humbly entreated him a second time.
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آن شفیعان از دم هیهای او ** چند بوسیدند دست و پای او
- At the breath of his clamour those intercessors kissed his hands and feet several times,
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کای امیر از تو نشاید کین کشی ** گر بشد باده تو بی‌باده خوشی
- Saying, “O Amír, it does not beseem thee to exact vengeance: if the wine is gone, (yet) thou art delicious without wine.
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باده سرمایه ز لطف تو برد ** لطف آب از لطف تو حسرت خورد 3565
- Wine derives its original substance from thy goodliness; the goodliness of water regrets (its lack of) thy goodliness.
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پادشاهی کن ببخشش ای رحیم ** ای کریم ابن الکریم ابن الکریم
- Act royally, forgive him, O merciful one, O generous son of a generous sire and grandsire.
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هر شرابی بنده‌ی این قد و خد ** جمله مستان را بود بر تو حسد
- Every wine is the slave of this (comely) figure and (fair) cheek (of thine): all the drunken feel envy of thee.
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هیچ محتاج می گلگون نه‌ای ** ترک کن گلگونه تو گلگونه‌ای
- Thou hast no need of rosy wine: take leave of (its) rosiness, thou (thyself) art (its) rosiness.
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ای رخ چون زهره‌ات شمس الضحی ** ای گدای رنگ تو گلگونه‌ها
- O thou whose Venus-like countenance is (bright as) the morning sun, O thou of whose colour (all) rosinesses are beggars,