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ور دمی هم فارغ آرندت ز نان ** گرد چادر گردی و عشق زنان
- And if for a moment thou art relieved from preoccupation with bread, thou danglest about the chádar and (givest thyself up to) thy passion for women;
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باز استسقات چون شد موج‌زن ** ملک شهری بایدت پر نان و زن 4655
- And then, when (the sea of) thy dropsy (lust) breaks into billows, thou must needs have under thy sway a (whole) city full of bread and women.
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مار بودی اژدها گشتی مگر ** یک سرت بود این زمانی هفت‌سر
- (At first) thou wert (only) a snake: (now) indeed thou hast become a dragon. Thou hadst (only) one head: now thou hast seven heads.
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اژدهای هفت‌سر دوزخ بود ** حرص تو دانه‌ست و دوزخ فخ بود
- Hell is a seven-headed dragon: thy greed is the bait and Hell the snare.
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دام را بدران بسوزان دانه را ** باز کن درهای نو این خانه را
- Pull the snare to pieces, burn the bait, open new doors in this (bodily) tenement!
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چون تو عاشق نیستی ای نرگدا ** هم‌چو کوهی بی‌خبر داری صدا
- O sturdy beggar, unless thou art a lover (of God), thou hast (only) an echo, like the unconscious mountain.
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کوه را گفتار کی باشد ز خود ** عکس غیرست آن صدا ای معتمد 4660
- How should the mountain possess a voice of its own? The echo is reflected from another, O trusty man.
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گفت تو زان سان که عکس دیگریست ** جمله احوالت به جز هم عکس نیست
- In the same fashion as thy speech is the reflexion of another, so all thy feelings are nothing but a reflexion.
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خشم و ذوقت هر دو عکس دیگران ** شادی قواده و خشم عوان
- Both thy anger and thy pleasure are (only) reflected from others, (like) the joy of the procuress and the rage of the night-patrol.
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آن عوان را آن ضعیف آخر چه کرد ** که دهد او را به کینه زجر و درد
- Pray, what (harm) did that poor fellow do to the night-patrol that he should punish and torment him in revenge?