پیشه و فرهنگ تو آید به تو ** تا در اسباب بگشاید به تو

پیشه و فرهنگ تو آید به تو ** تا در اسباب بگشاید به تو 1685

Your handicraft and skill come (back) to you, that they may open to you the door of (ways and) means.

پیشه زرگر به آهنگر نشد ** خوی این خوش خو به آن منکر نشد

The goldsmith's craft did not go to the ironsmith; the disposition of the good-natured man did not go to the disagreeable one.

پیشه‌‌ها و خلقها همچون جهیز ** سوی خصم آیند روز رستخیز

On the day of Resurrection the handicrafts and dispositions will come, like articles of property, to the claimant (owner).

پیشه‌‌ها و خلقها از بعد خواب ** واپس آید هم به خصم خود شتاب‌‌

After sleep also, the handicrafts and dispositions come back in haste to him that claims them as his.

پیشه‌‌ها و اندیشه‌‌ها در وقت صبح ** هم بدانجا شد که بود آن حسن و قبح‌‌

At the hour of dawn the handicrafts and thoughts went to the same place where that good and evil (formerly) were.

چون کبوترهای پیک از شهرها ** سوی شهر خویش آرد بهرها 1690

Like carrier pigeons, they bring things useful (to know) from (other) cities to their own city.

شنیدن آن طوطی حرکت آن طوطیان و مردن آن طوطی در قفس و نوحه‌‌ی خواجه بر وی‌‌

How the parrot heard what those parrots had done, and died in the cage, and how the merchant made lament for her.

چون شنید آن مرغ کان طوطی چه کرد ** پس بلرزید اوفتاد و گشت سرد

When the bird heard what that (other) parrot had done, thereupon she trembled, fell, and became cold.

خواجه چون دیدش فتاده همچنین ** بر جهید و زد کله را بر زمین‌‌

The merchant, seeing her thus fallen, sprang up and dashed his cap on the ground.

چون بدین رنگ و بدین حالش بدید ** خواجه بر جست و گریبان را درید

When he saw her in this guise and in this state, the merchant sprang up and tore the breast of his garment.

گفت ای طوطی خوب خوش حنین ** این چه بودت این چرا گشتی چنین‌‌

He said, “O beautiful parrot with thy sweet cry, what is this that has happened to thee? Why hast thou become like this?