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1829-1838

  • 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)”?

  • 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),

  • 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,

  • 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.’”

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • هر که داد او حسن خود را در مزاد ** صد قضای بد سوی او رو نهاد 1835
  • Any one who offers his beauty to auction, a hundred evil fates set out towards him (and overtake him).

  • چشمها و خشمها و رشکها ** بر سرش ریزد چو آب از مشکها
  • (Evil) eyes and angers and envies pour upon his head, like water from waterskins.

  • دشمنان او را ز غیرت می‌‌درند ** دوستان هم روزگارش می‌‌برند
  • Foes tear him to pieces from jealousy; even friends take his lifetime away.

  • آن که غافل بود از کشت بهار ** او چه داند قیمت این روزگار
  • He that was heedless of the sowing and the springtide, how should he know the value of this lifetime?