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ای عجب کو آن عقیق قندخا ** آن کلید قفل مشکل‌های ما
- Oh, where, I wonder, is that candy-chewing cornelian (lip), the key to the lock of our perplexities?
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ای عجب کو آن دم چون ذوالفقار ** آنک کردی عقل‌ها را بی‌قرار
- Oh, where, I wonder, is that breath (keen) as Dhu ’l-faqár, that used to make our understandings distraught?
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چند هم‌چون فاخته کاشانه‌جو ** کو و کو و کو و کو و کو و کو
- How long, like a ringdove seeking her nest, (shall I cry) ‘where (kú) and where and where and where and where and where?’
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کو همان‌جا که صفات رحمتست ** قدرتست و نزهتست و فطنتست 3315
- Where (is he now)? In the place where are the Attributes of (Divine) Mercy, and (the Divine) Power and Transcendence, and (celestial) Intelligence.
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کو همان‌جا که دل و اندیشه‌اش ** دایم آن‌جا بد چو شیر و بیشه‌اش
- Where (is he now)? In the same place where his heart and thought always dwelt, like the lion in his jungle.
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کو همان‌جا که امید مرد و زن ** می‌رود در وقت اندوه و حزن
- Where (is he now)? In that place whither the hope of (every) man and woman turns in the hour of anguish and sorrow.
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کو همان‌جا که به وقت علتی ** چشم پرد بر امید صحتی
- Where (is he now)? In the place to which in time of illness the eye takes wing in hope of (regaining) health—
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آن طرف که بهر دفع زشتیی ** باد جویی بهر کشت و کشتیی
- In that quarter where, in order to avert a calamity, you seek wind for (winnowing) the corn or (speeding) a ship (on its way);
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آن طرف که دل اشارت می‌کند ** چون زبان یا هو عبارت می‌کند 3320
- In that quarter which is signified by the heart when the tongue utters the expression ‘Yá Hú.’
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او مع‌الله است بی کو کو همی ** کاش جولاهانه ماکو گفتمی
- He is always with God (and) beyond ‘where? where?’ (kú, kú). Would that like weavers I might have said má kú!