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از چه گریی دولتت شد ناگوار ** فوق املاکی قرین شهریار
- Wherefore shouldst thou weep? Has thy fortune become disagreeable to thee? Thou art above kings, (thou art) the familiar companion of the Emperor.
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تو برین تخت و وزیران و سپاه ** پیش تختت صف زده چون نجم و ماه 1390
- Thou art (seated) on this throne, while the viziers and soldiers are ranged in file before thy throne, like the stars and the moon.”
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گفت کودک گریه‌ام زانست زار ** که مرا مادر در آن شهر و دیار
- The boy said, “The cause of my weeping bitterly is that in yonder city and country my mother
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از توم تهدید کردی هر زمان ** بینمت در دست محمود ارسلان
- Was always threatening me with thee, (saying), ‘May I see you in the hands of the lion, Mahmúd!’
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پس پدر مر مادرم را در جواب ** جنگ کردی کین چه خشمست و عذاب
- Then my father would wrangle with my mother (and say) in reply, ‘What wrath and torment is this (that you would inflict on him)?
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می‌نیابی هیچ نفرینی دگر ** زین چنین نفرین مهلک سهلتر
- Cannot you find any other curse lighter than this deadly curse?
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سخت بی‌رحمی و بس سنگین‌دلی ** که به صد شمشیر او را قاتلی 1395
- You are very pitiless and exceedingly hard-hearted, for you are (virtually) killing him with a hundred swords.’
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من ز گفت هر دو حیران گشتمی ** در دل افتادی مرا بیم و غمی
- I used to be dismayed by the talk of both: a (great) terror and pain would come into my heart,
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تا چه دوزخ‌خوست محمود ای عجب ** که مثل گشتست در ویل و کرب
- (Thinking), ‘Oh, wonderful! What a hellish person Mahmúd must be, since he has become proverbial for woe and anguish!’
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من همی‌لرزیدمی از بیم تو ** غافل از اکرام و از تعظیم تو
- I used to tremble in fear of thee, being ignorant of thy gracious treatment and high regard.