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1873-1897

  • تو نه آن عودی کز آتش کم شود ** تو نه آن روحی که اسیر غم شود
  • Thou art not that aloes-wood that is minished by the fire: thou art not that spirit that is made captive by grief.

  • عود سوزد کان عود از سوز دور ** باد کی حمله برد بر اصل نور
  • Aloes-wood burns, (but) the mine of aloes-wood is far from burning: how should the wind (of evil words) assail the source of (spiritual) light?

  • ای ز تو مر آسمانها را صفا ** ای جفای تو نکوتر از وفا 1875
  • Oh, ’tis from thee the heavens have (their) purity; oh, thy unkindness is better than kindness,

  • ز انکه از عاقل جفایی گر رود ** از وفای جاهلان آن به بود
  • Because if an unkindness come from the wise it is better than the kindness of the ignorant.

  • گفت پیغمبر عداوت از خرد ** بهتر از مهری که از جاهل رسد
  • The Prophet said, “Enmity (proceeding) from wisdom is better than the love that comes from a fool.”

  • رنجانیدن امیری خفته‏ای را که مار در دهانش رفته بود
  • How an Amír harassed a sleeping man into whose mouth a snake had gone.

  • عاقلی بر اسب می‏آمد سوار ** در دهان خفته‏ای می‏رفت مار
  • A wise man was riding along (at the moment when) a snake was going into the mouth of a man asleep.

  • آن سوار آن را بدید و می‏شتافت ** تا رماند مار را فرصت نیافت‏
  • The rider saw that, and was hurrying to scare away the snake, (but) he got no chance (of doing so).

  • چون که از عقلش فراوان بد مدد ** چند دبوسی قوی بر خفته زد 1880
  • Since he had an abundant supply of intelligence, he struck the sleeper several powerful blows with a mace.

  • برد او را زخم آن دبوس سخت ** زو گریزان تا به زیر یک درخت‏
  • The strokes of the hard mace drove him in flight from him (the rider) to beneath a tree.

  • سیب پوسیده بسی بد ریخته ** گفت از این خور ای به درد آویخته‏
  • There were many rotten apples which had dropped (from the tree): he said, “Eat of these, O you in the grip of pain!”

  • سیب چندان مر و را در خورد داد ** کز دهانش باز بیرون می‏فتاد
  • He gave him so many apples to eat that they were falling out of his mouth again.

  • بانگ می‏زد کای امیر آخر چرا ** قصد من کردی تو نادیده جفا
  • He was crying, “O Amír, pray, why have you set on me when you have not suffered injury?

  • گر ترا ز اصل است با جانم ستیز ** تیغ زن یک بارگی خونم بریز 1885
  • If you have an inveterate and mortal feud with me, strike with your sword and shed my blood at once.

  • شوم ساعت که شدم بر تو پدید ** ای خنک آن را که روی تو ندید
  • Ill-omened (was) the hour I came into your sight: oh, happy he that never saw your face!

  • بی‏جنایت بی‏گنه بی‏بیش و کم ** ملحدان جایز ندارند این ستم‏
  • Without guilt, without sin, without (having done) anything great or small—(even) the heretics hold not such oppression allowable.

  • می‏جهد خون از دهانم با سخن ** ای خدا آخر مکافاتش تو کن‏
  • Blood gushes from my mouth together with (my) words. O God, I beseech Thee, give him the retribution (which he deserves)!”

  • هر زمان می‏گفت او نفرین نو ** اوش می‏زد کاندر این صحرا بدو
  • Every instant he was uttering a new curse, (while) he (the rider) kept beating him and saying, “Run in this plain.”

  • زخم دبوس و سوار همچو باد ** می‏دوید و باز در رو می‏فتاد 1890
  • Blows of the mace, and the rider (swift) as the wind! He (therefore) went on running and (now and) again falling on his face.

  • ممتلی و خوابناک و سست بد ** پا و رویش صد هزاران زخم شد
  • He was full-fed and sleepy and fatigued: his feet and face became (covered with) a hundred thousand wounds.

  • تا شبانگه می‏کشید و می‏گشاد ** تا ز صفرا قی شدن بر وی فتاد
  • Till nightfall he (the rider) drove (him) to and fro, until vomiting caused by bile overtook him.

  • زو بر آمد خورده‏ها زشت و نکو ** مار با آن خورده بیرون جست از او
  • All the things he had eaten, bad or good, came up from him: the snake shot forth from him along with what he had eaten.

  • چون بدید از خود برون آن مار را ** سجده آورد آن نکو کردار را
  • When he saw the snake outside of him, he fell on his knees before that beneficent man.

  • سهم آن مار سیاه زشت زفت ** چون بدید آن دردها از وی برفت‏ 1895
  • As soon as he saw the horror of that black, ugly, big snake, those griefs departed from him.

  • گفت خود تو جبرییل رحمتی ** یا خدایی که ولی نعمتی‏
  • “Truly,” said he, “you are the Gabriel of (Divine) mercy, or you are God, for you are the lord of bounty.

  • ای مبارک ساعتی که دیدی‏ام ** مرده بودم جان نو بخشیدی‏ام‏
  • Oh, blest (is) the hour that you saw me: I was dead, you have given me new life.