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  • ستر چه در پشم و پنبه آذرست ** تا همی‌پوشیش او پیداترست
  • What covering (can there be)? The fire is in the wool cotton whilst thou art covering it up, it is (all the) more manifest.

  • چون بکوشم تا سرش پنهان کنم ** سر بر آرد چون علم کاینک منم
  • When I endeavour to hide His (Love’s) secret, He lifts up His head, like a banner, saying, “Look, here am I!”

  • رغم انفم گیردم او هر دو گوش ** کای مدمغ چونش می‌پوشی بپوش 4735
  • In despite of me He seizes both my ears, saying, “O scatter-brain, how wilt thou cover it Cover it (if thou canst)!”

  • گویمش رو گرچه بر جوشیده‌ای ** همچو جان پیدایی و پوشیده‌ای
  • I say to Him, “Begone! Though thou hast bubbled up (hast become fervid), (yet) thou art (both) manifest and concealed, like the soul.”

  • گوید او محبوس خنبست این تنم ** چون می اندر بزم خنبک می‌زنم
  • He says, “This body of mine is imprisoned in the jar, (but) like wine I am clapping hands (making a merry noise) at the banquet.”

  • گویمش زان پیش که گردی گرو ** تا نیاید آفت مستی برو
  • I say to Him, “Go ere thou art put in pawn (confinement) lest the bane of intoxication befall (thee).”

  • گوید از جام لطیف‌آشام من ** یار روزم تا نماز شام من
  • He says, “I befriend the day with (my) delicious cup until the evening-prayer.

  • چون بیاید شام و دزدد جام من ** گویمش وا ده که نامد شام من 4740
  • When evening comes and steals my cup, I will say to it, ‘Give (it) back, for my evening hath not come.’”

  • زان عرب بنهاد نام می مدام ** زانک سیری نیست می‌خور را مدام
  • Hence the Arabs applied the name mudám to wine, because the wine-drinker is never sated.

  • عشق جوشد باده‌ی تحقیق را ** او بود ساقی نهان صدیق را
  • Love makes the wine of realisation to bubble: He is the cup-bearer to the siddíq (true lover) in secret.

  • چون بجویی تو بتوفیق حسن ** باده آب جان بود ابریق تن
  • When you seek (the reality) with good help (from God), the water (essence) of the spirit is the wine, and the body is the flagon.

  • چون بیفزاید می توفیق را ** قوت می بشکند ابریق را
  • When He increases the wine of His help, the potency of the wine bursts the flagon.

  • آب گردد ساقی و هم مست آب ** چون مگو والله اعلم بالصواب 4745
  • The water (the spirit) becomes the Cup-bearer, and the water (is) also the drunken man. Tell not how! And Go best knoweth the right.

  • پرتو ساقیست کاندر شیره رفت ** شیره بر جوشید و رقصان گشت و زفت
  • ‘Tis the radiance of the Cup-bearer that entered into the must: the must bubbled up and began to dance and waxed strong.

  • اندرین معنی بپرس آن خیره را ** که چنین کی دیده بودی شیره را
  • On this matter, ask the heedless (sceptic), “When did you (ever) see must like this?”

  • بی تفکر پیش هر داننده هست ** آنک با شوریده شوراننده هست
  • To every one who hath knowledge it is (self-evident) without reflection, that together with the person disturbed there is a Disturber.

  • حکایت عاشقی دراز هجرانی بسیار امتحانی
  • Story of the lover who had been long separated (from his beloved) and had suffered much tribulation.

  • یک جوانی بر زنی مجنون بدست ** می‌ندادش روزگار وصل دست
  • A certain youth was madly enamoured of a woman: the fortune of union was not granted to him.

  • بس شکنجه کرد عشقش بر زمین ** خود چرا دارد ز اول عشق کین 4750
  • Love tortured him exceedingly on the earth: why, in sooth, does Love bear hatred (to the lover) from the first?

  • عشق از اول چرا خونی بود ** تا گریزد آنک بیرونی بود
  • Why is Love murderous from the first, so that he who is an outsider runs away?

  • چون فرستادی رسولی پیش زن ** آن رسول از رشک گشتی راه‌زن
  • Whenever he sent a messenger to the woman, the messenger because of jealousy would become a highwayman (barring the way against him);

  • ور بسوی زن نبشتی کاتبش ** نامه را تصحیف خواندی نایبش
  • And if his secretary wrote (a letter to be sent) to the woman, his delegate (messenger) would read the letter (to her) with tashíf;

  • ور صبا را پیک کردی در وفا ** از غباری تیره گشتی آن صبا
  • And if in good faith he made the zephyr his envoy, that zephyr would be darkened by a (cloud of) dust.

  • رقعه گر بر پر مرغی دوختی ** پر مرغ از تف رقعه سوختی 4755
  • If he sewed the letter on the wing of a bird, the bird's wing would be burnt by the ardour of the letter.

  • راههای چاره را غیرت ببست ** لشکر اندیشه را رایت شکست
  • The (Divine) jealousy barred (all) the ways of device and broke the banner of the army of cogitation.

  • بود اول مونس غم انتظار ** آخرش بشکست کی هم انتظار
  • At first, expectation was the comforting friend of (his) sorrow; at last, there broke him—who? Even (the same) expectation.