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ور بگویی ور بکوشی صد هزار ** هست بیگار و نگردد آشکار
- And if you would tell it and make a hundred thousand efforts, ’tis fruitless labour, for it will never become clear.
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تا به دریا سیر اسپ و زین بود ** بعد ازینت مرکب چوبین بود
- As far as the sea, ’tis a journey on horseback: after this you (must) have a wooden horse.
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مرکب چوبین به خشکی ابترست ** خاص آن دریاییان را رهبرست
- The wooden horse is no good on the dry land: it carries exclusively those who voyage on the sea.
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این خموشی مرکب چوبین بود ** بحریان را خامشی تلقین بود
- The wooden horse is this (mystical) silence: (this) silence gives instruction to the sea-folk.
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هر خموشی که ملولت می‌کند ** نعره‌های عشق آن سو می‌زند 4625
- Every (such) silent one who wearies you is (really) uttering shrieks of love Yonder.
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تو همی‌گویی عجب خامش چراست ** او همی‌گوید عجب گوشش کجاست
- You say, “I wonder why he is silent”; he says (to himself), “How strange! Where is his ear?
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من ز نعره کر شدم او بی‌خبر ** تیزگوشان زین سمر هستند کر
- I am deafened by the shrieks, (yet) he is unaware (of them).” The (apparently) sharp-eared are (in fact) deaf to this (mystical) converse.
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آن یکی در خواب نعره می‌زند ** صد هزاران بحث و تلقین می‌کند
- (For example), some one cries aloud in his dream and gives a hundred thousand discussions and communications,
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این نشسته پهلوی او بی‌خبر ** خفته خود آنست و کر زان شور و شر
- (While) this (other), sitting beside him, is unaware (of it): ’tis really he who is asleep and deaf to (all) that turmoil and tumult.
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وان کسی کش مرکب چوبین شکست ** غرقه شد در آب او خود ماهیست 4630
- And he whose wooden horse is shattered and sunk in the water (of the sea), he in sooth is the fish.