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?

در پناه لطف حق باید گریخت ** کاو هزاران لطف بر ارواح ریخت‌‌

You must flee to the shelter of God's grace, who shed thousand fold grace upon (our) spirits,

تا پناهی یابی آن گه چون پناه ** آب و آتش مر ترا گردد سپاه‌‌ 1840

That you may find a shelter. Then how (will you lack) shelter? Water and fire will become your army.

نوح و موسی را نه دریا یار شد ** نه بر اعداشان به کین قهار شد

Did not the sea become a friend to Noah and Moses? Did it not become overbearing in vengeance against their enemies?

آتش ابراهیم را نی قلعه بود ** تا بر آورد از دل نمرود دود

Was not the fire a fortress for Abraham, so that it raised smoke (sighs of despair) from the heart of Nimrod?