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صد هزاران سر بپولی آن زمان ** عشق خشم آلوده زه کرده کمان
- A hundred thousand heads (go) for a farthing at the moment (when) Love strings his bow in anger.
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عشق خود بی‌خشم در وقت خوشی ** خوی دارد دم به دم خیره‌کشی
- Even without anger, at the time when he is well-pleased, Love is always accustomed to kill recklessly.
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این بود آن لحظه کو خشنود شد ** من چه گویم چونک خشم‌آلود شد
- This is (his habit) at the moment when he is contented: how shall I describe (what he does) when he is angered?
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لیک مرج جان فدای شیر او ** کش کشد این عشق و این شمشیر او 4005
- But may the soul's pasture be the ransom for his (Love's) lion who is killed by this Love and his scimitar!
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کشتنی به از هزاران زندگی ** سلطنت‌ها مرده‌ی این بندگی
- (’Tis) a killing better than a thousand lives: (all) sovereignties are mortally enamoured of this servitude.
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با کنایت رازها با هم‌دگر ** پست گفتندی به صد خوف و حذر
- They (the princes) were telling each other their secrets allusively in low tones with a hundred fears and precautions.
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راز را غیر خدا محرم نبود ** آه را جز آسمان هم‌دم نبود
- None but God was the confidant of their secret, their sighs were breathed to Heaven alone.
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اصطلاحاتی میان هم‌دگر ** داشتندی بهر ایراد خبر
- They were using certain mystical terms among themselves in order to convey information.
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زین لسان الطیر عام آموختند ** طمطراق و سروری اندوختند 4010
- The vulgar have learned this birds' language and (by means of it) have acquired prestige and authority.
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صورت آواز مرغست آن کلام ** غافلست از حال مرغان مرد خام
- That terminology is (only) the image (imitation) of the bird's voice: the uninitiated man is ignorant of the (inward) state of the birds.