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پس روان گشتند سرهنگان مست ** تا که دزدان را گرفتند و ببست 2850
- Thereupon furious officers rushed away to arrest and pinion the thieves.
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دست‌بسته سوی دیوان آمدند ** وز نهیب جان خود لرزان شدند
- They (the thieves) came handcuffed into the council-chamber, and they were trembling in fear for their lives.
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چونک استادند پیش تخت شاه ** یار شبشان بود آن شاه چو ماه
- When they stood before the King's throne, that moon-like King was their (last) night's companion.
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آنک چشمش شب بهرکه انداختی ** روز دیدی بی شکش بشناختی
- He (the thief) who could without hesitation recognise by day any one on whom he had cast his eye by night
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شاه را بر تخت دید و گفت این ** بود با ما دوش شب‌گرد و قرین
- Saw the King on the throne and said, “This man was going about with us last night and was our comrade.
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آنک چندین خاصیت در ریش اوست ** این گرفت ما هم از تفتیش اوست 2855
- He who has such a great talent in his beard—our arrest is the result of his enquiry.”
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عارف شه بود چشمش لاجرم ** بر گشاد از معرفت لب با حشم
- His (the thief's) eye was a knower of the King: consequently he opened his lips (to speak) of (mystic) knowledge to his followers.
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گفت و هو معکم این شاه بود ** فعل ما می‌دید و سرمان می‌شنود
- He said, “This King was (the subject of) and He is with you: he was seeing our actions and hearing our secret.
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چشم من ره برد شب شه را شناخت ** جمله شب با روی ماهش عشق باخت
- My eye made its way (to him), recognised the King by night, and all night long played the game of love with his moon-like face.
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امت خود را بخواهم من ازو ** کو نگرداند ز عارف هیچ رو
- I will beg (forgiveness for) my people from him, for he never averts his face from the knower.