بهتر از ماهی نبود استارهام ** چون خسوف آمد چه باشد چارهام
My star was not better than a moon (so that it should be exempt from eclipse): since it has suffered eclipse, what help have I?
نوبتم گر رب و سلطان میزنند ** مه گرفت و خلق پنگان میزنند
If they beat drums in my honour (proclaiming me) as Lord and Sultan, (’tis like as when) the moon is eclipsed and the people beat bowls (of metal).
میزنند آن طاس و غوغا میکنند ** ماه را ز آن زخمه رسوا میکنند
They beat those bowls and raise a clamour: they put the moon to shame by their blows.
من که فرعونم ز شهرت وای من ** زخم طاس آن ربی الاعلای من2455
I, who am Pharaoh, oh, woe is me because of (what is being done by) the people: my (title of) ‘My supreme Lord’ is (like) the blows on the bowl (since it proclaims my eclipse).
خواجهتاشانیم اما تیشهات ** میشکافد شاخ را در بیشهات
We (Moses and I) are fellow-servants (to Thee), but Thy axe is cleaving the boughs in Thy forest;
باز شاخی را موصل میکند ** شاخ دیگر را معطل میکند
Then it makes one bough to be grafted, another bough to be left uncared for.
شاخ را بر تیشه دستی هست نی ** هیچ شاخ از دست تیشه جست نی
The bough has no power against the axe: no bough escaped from the power of the axe.
حق آن قدرت که آن تیشه تراست ** از کرم کن این کژیها را تو راست
(I entreat Thee) by the truth of the might which belongs to Thy axe, do Thou graciously make these crooked (perverse) actions (of ours) straight (righteous).”
باز با خود گفته فرعون ای عجب ** من نه در یا ربناام جمله شب2460
Once more Pharaoh said to himself, “Oh, wonderful! Am not I (occupied) the whole night in (crying) ‘O our Lord’?
در نهان خاکی و موزون میشوم ** چون به موسی میرسم چون میشوم
In secret I am growing humble and harmonious: when I reach Moses, how am I becoming (so different)?