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1890-1914

  • 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.

  • تو مرا جویان مثال مادران ** من گریزان از تو مانند خران‏
  • You (were) seeking me like mothers (in search of their children); I (was) fleeing from you like asses.

  • خر گریزد از خداوند از خری ** صاحبش در پی ز نیکو گوهری‏
  • The ass flees from his master because of asininity; his owner (runs) after (him) because of good-nature.

  • نه از پی سود و زیان می‏جویدش ** لیک تا در گرگش ندرد یا ددش‏ 1900
  • He seeks him, not on account of profit or loss, but in order that a wolf or (other) wild beast may not tear him.

  • ای خنک آن را که بیند روی تو ** یا در افتد ناگهان در کوی تو
  • Oh, happy he that espies your face or suddenly lights upon your abode.

  • ای روان پاک بستوده ترا ** چند گفتم ژاژ و بی‏هوده ترا
  • O you whom the pure spirit hath praised, how many foolish and idle words have I spoken to you!

  • ای خداوند و شهنشاه و امیر ** من نگفتم جهل من گفت آن مگیر
  • O lord and emperor and amír, I spoke not, my folly spoke: do not punish that (offence).

  • شمه‏ای زین حال اگر دانستمی ** گفتن بی‏هوده کی تانستمی‏
  • If I had known a tittle of this matter, how could I have spoken foolish words?

  • بس ثنایت گفتمی ای خوش خصال ** گر مرا یک رمز می‏گفتی ز حال‏ 1905
  • I should have spoken much praise of you, O man of good qualities, if you had given me a single hint as to the (actual) case;

  • لیک خامش کرده می‏آشوفتی ** خامشانه بر سرم می‏کوفتی‏
  • But you, keeping silence, showed perturbation and silently continued to beat me on the head.

  • شد سرم کالیوه عقل از سر بجست ** خاصه این سر را که مغزش کمتر است‏
  • My head became dizzy, the wits flew out of my head— especially as this head has (but) little brain.

  • عفو کن ای خوب روی خوب کار ** آن چه گفتم از جنون اندر گذار
  • Pardon, O man of goodly countenance and goodly behaviour: let pass that which I said in frenzy.”

  • گفت اگر من گفتمی رمزی از آن ** زهره‏ی تو آب گشتی آن زمان‏
  • He answered, “If I had uttered a hint of it, your gall would instantly have turned to water.

  • گر ترا من گفتمی اوصاف مار ** ترس از جانت بر آوردی دمار 1910
  • Had I told you the qualities of the snake, terror would have made you give up the ghost.”

  • مصطفی فرمود اگر گویم به راست ** شرح آن دشمن که در جان شماست‏
  • Mustafá (Mohammed) said, ‘If I should tell aright the description of the enemy which is in your souls,

  • زهره‏های پر دلان هم بر درد ** نه رود ره نه غم کاری خورد
  • The gall-bladders even of courageous men would burst: he (such a one) would neither go his way nor care for any work.

  • نه دلش را تاب ماند در نیاز ** نه تنش را قوت روزه و نماز
  • Neither would there remain to his heart endurance in supplication, nor to his body strength for fasting and (ritual) prayer.

  • همچو موشی پیش گربه لا شود ** همچو بره پیش گرگ از جا رود
  • He would become (good for) nothing as a mouse before a cat; he would be distraught as a lamb before a wolf.