بشنو این زاری یوسف در عثار ** یا بر آن یعقوب بیدل رحم آر 2800
Hearken to this lament of Joseph in his lapse (from grace), or take pity on that distraught Jacob.
ناله از اخوان کنم یا از زنان ** که فکندندم چو آدم از جنان
Shall I complain of my brethren or of the women who have cast me, like Adam, from the gardens (of Eden)?
زان مثال برگ دی پژمردهام ** کز بهشت وصل گندم خوردهام
I am withered like leaves in December because I have eaten the wheat from the Paradise of union.
چون بدیدم لطف و اکرام ترا ** وآن سلام سلم و پیغام ترا
When I saw Thy graciousness and kindness and Thy greeting of peace and Thy message,
من سپند از چشم بد کردم پدید ** در سپندم نیز چشم بد رسید
I produced rue (to burn as a charm) against the evil eye; (but) the evil eye reached even my rue.
دافع هر چشم بد از پیش و پس ** چشمهای پر خمار تست و بس 2805
(’Tis) only Thy languishing eyes (that) are able to avert every evil eye (whether) in front or behind.
چشم بد را چشم نیکویت شها ** مات و مستاصل کند نعم الدوا
Thy good eye, O King, defeats and extirpates the evil eye: how excellent it is as a remedy!
بل ز چشمت کیمیاها میرسد ** چشم بد را چشم نیکو میکند
Nay, from Thine eye come (wondrous) alchemies (transmutations): they turn the evil eye into the good eye.
چشم شه بر چشم باز دل زدست ** چشم بازش سخت با همت شدست
The King's eye hath smitten the eye of the falcon-heart, and its falcon-eye hath become mightily aspiring,
تا ز بس همت که یابید از نظر ** مینگیرد باز شه جز شیر نر
So that, because of the great aspiration which it has gained from the (King's) look, the royal falcon will (now) catch (hunt) nothing but the fierce lion.