شیر را چون دید در چه کشته زار ** چرخ می‌‌زد شادمان تا مرغزار

شیر را چون دید در چه کشته زار ** چرخ می‌‌زد شادمان تا مرغزار 1340

Having seen the lion miserably slain in the well, he was skipping joyously all the way to the meadow,

دست می‌‌زد چون رهید از دست مرگ ** سبز و رقصان در هوا چون شاخ و برگ‌‌

Clapping his hands because he had escaped from the hand of Death; fresh and dancing in the air, like bough and leaf.

شاخ و برگ از حبس خاک آزاد شد ** سر بر آورد و حریف باد شد

Bough and leaf were set free from the prison of earth, lifted their heads, and became comrades of the wind;

برگها چون شاخ را بشکافتند ** تا به بالای درخت اشتافتند

The leaves, when they had burst (forth from) the bough, made haste to reach the top of the tree;

با زبان شطاه شکر خدا ** می‌‌سراید هر بر و برگی جدا

With the tongue of (seed that put forth) its sprouts each fruit and tree severally is singing thanks to God,

که بپرورد اصل ما را ذو العطا ** تا درخت استغلظ آمد و استوی‌‌ 1345

Saying, “The Bounteous Giver nourished our root until the tree grew big and stood upright.”

جانهای بسته اندر آب و گل ** چون رهند از آب و گلها شاد دل‌‌

(Even so) the spirits bound in clay, when they escape glad at heart from their (prisons of) clay,

در هوای عشق حق رقصان شوند ** همچو قرص بدر بی‌‌نقصان شوند

Begin to dance in the air of Divine Love and become flawless like the full moon's orb,

جسمشان در رقص و جانها خود مپرس ** و آن که گرد جان از آنها خود مپرس‌‌

Their bodies dancing, and their souls—nay, do not ask (how their souls fare); and of that which surrounds the soul—nay, do not ask of those things!

شیر را خرگوش در زندان نشاند ** ننگ شیری کاو ز خرگوشی بماند

The hare lodged the lion in prison. Shame on a lion who was discomfited by a hare!