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خواب بردش مرغ جانش از حبس رست ** چنگ و چنگی را رها کرد و بجست
- Sleep overtook him: the bird, his soul, escaped from captivity, it let harp and harper go and darted away.
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گشت آزاد از تن و رنج جهان ** در جهان ساده و صحرای جان 2090
- It became freed from the body and the pain of this world in the simple (purely spiritual) world and the vast region of the soul.
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جان او آن جا سرایان ماجرا ** کاندر اینجا گر بماندندی مرا
- There his soul was singing what had befallen (it), saying, “If they would but let me stay here,
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خوش بدی جانم در این باغ و بهار ** مست این صحرا و غیبی لالهزار
- Happy would be my soul in this garden and springtide, drunken with this (far stretching) plain and mystic anemone-field.
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بیپر و بیپا سفر میکردمی ** بیلب و دندان شکر میخوردمی
- Without wing or foot I would be journeying, without lip or tooth I would be eating sugar.
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ذکر و فکری فارغ از رنج دماغ ** کردمی با ساکنان چرخ لاغ
- With a memory and thought free from brain-sickness, I would frolic with the dwellers in Heaven.
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چشم بسته عالمی میدیدمی ** ورد و ریحان بیکفی میچیدمی 2095
- With eye shut I would be seeing a (whole) world, without a hand I would be gathering roses and basil.”
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مرغ آبی غرق دریای عسل ** عین ایوبی شراب و مغتسل
- The water-bird (his soul) was plunged in a sea of honey— the fountain of Job, to drink and wash in,
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که بدو ایوب از پا تا به فرق ** پاک شد از رنجها چون نور شرق
- Whereby Job, from his feet to the crown of his head, was purged of afflictions (and made pure) like the light of the sunrise.
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مثنوی در حجم گر بودی چو چرخ ** درنگنجیدی در او زین نیم برخ
- If the Mathnawí were as the sky in magnitude, not half the portion of this (mystery) would find room in it,