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  • چون قفس را بشکند شاه خرد  ** جمع مرغان هر یکی سویی پرد 
  • When sovereign Reason breaks the cage, all the birds fly away, each one to a (different) quarter.

  • پر گشاید پیش ازین بر شوق و یاد  ** در هوای جنس خود سوی معاد  2385
  • Before this (deliverance) each one, full of longing and lament, spreads its wings towards its destination, in desire for its mate.

  • پر گشاید هر دمی با اشک و آه  ** لیک پریدن ندارد روی و راه 
  • At every moment it spreads its wings with tears and sighs, but it has no room or way to fly.

  • راه شد هر یک پرد مانند باد  ** سوی آن کز یاد آن پر می‌گشاد 
  • (As soon as) way is made, each one flies like the wind towards that in remembrance of which it spread its wings.

  • آن طرف که بود اشک و آه او  ** چونک فرصت یافت باشد راه او 
  • Its way, when it gains the opportunity, is towards the region whither its tears and sighs were (directed).

  • در تن خود بنگر این اجزای تن  ** از کجاها گرد آمد در بدن 
  • Consider your own body: from what places were these corporeal parts (elements and faculties) collected in the body—

  • آبی و خاکی و بادی و آتشی  ** عرشی و فرشی و رومی و گشی  2390
  • Watery and earthen and airy and fiery, celestial and terrestrial, (some) of Rúm and (some) of Kash.

  • از امید عود هر یک بسته طرف  ** اندرین کاروانسرا از بیم برف 
  • In this (bodily) caravanseray one and all, from fear of the snow, have closed their eyes to the hope of returning (to their final destination).

  • برف گوناگون جمود هر جماد  ** در شتای بعد آن خورشید داد 
  • The various snows are (symbolise) the congelation of every inanimate thing in the winter of farness from that Sun of justice.

  • چون بتابد تف آن خورشید جشم  ** کوه گردد گاه ریگ و گاه پشم 
  • (But) when the heat of the angry Sun flames (forth), the mountain becomes now (like) sand and now (like) wool.