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بعد از آنش از قفس بیرون فگند ** طوطیک پرید تا شاخ بلند 1825
- After that, he cast her out of the cage. The little parrot flew to a lofty bough.
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طوطی مرده چنان پرواز کرد ** کافتاب از چرخ ترکی تاز کرد
- The dead parrot made such a (swift) flight as when the orient sun rushed onward.
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خواجه حیران گشت اندر کار مرغ ** بی‌‌خبر ناگه بدید اسرار مرغ
- The merchant was amazed at the action of the bird: without understanding he suddenly beheld the mysteries of the bird.
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روی بالا کرد و گفت ای عندلیب ** از بیان حال خودمان ده نصیب
- He lifted up his face and said, “O nightingale, give us profit (instruction) by explaining thy case.
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او چه کرد آن جا که تو آموختی ** ساختی مکری و ما را سوختی
- What did she (the parrot) do there (in India), that thou didst learn, devise a trick, and burn us (with grief)”?
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گفت طوطی کاو به فعلم پند داد ** که رها کن لطف آواز و وداد 1830
- The parrot said, “She by her act counselled me—‘Abandon thy charm of voice and thy affection (for thy master),
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ز آن که آوازت ترا در بند کرد ** خویشتن مرده پی این پند کرد
- Because thy voice has brought thee into bondage’: she feigned herself dead for the sake of (giving me) this counsel,
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یعنی ای مطرب شده با عام و خاص ** مرده شو چون من که تا یابی خلاص
- Meaning (to say), ‘O thou who hast become a singer to high and low, become dead like me, that thou mayst gain release.’”
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دانه باشی مرغکانت بر چنند ** غنچه باشی کودکانت بر کنند
- If you are a grain, the little birds will peck you up; if you are a bud, the children will pluck you off.
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دانه پنهان کن بکلی دام شو ** غنچه پنهان کن گیاه بام شو
- Hide the grain (bait), become wholly a snare; hide the bud, become the grass on the roof.