ریش بر می‌‌کند و می‌‌گفت ای دریغ ** کافتاب نعمتم شد زیر میغ‌‌

Tearing his beard and saying, “Alas! the sun of my prosperity has gone under the clouds.

دست من بشکسته بودی آن زمان ** که زدم من بر سر آن خوش زبان‌‌ 255

Would that my hand had been broken (powerless) at the moment when I struck (such a blow) on the head of that sweet-tongued one?”

هدیه‌‌ها می‌‌داد هر درویش را ** تا بیابد نطق مرغ خویش را

He was giving presents to every dervish, that he might get back the speech of his bird.

بعد سه روز و سه شب حیران و زار ** بر دکان بنشسته بد نومید وار

After three days and three nights, he was seated on the bench, distraught and sorrowful, like a man in despair,

می‌‌نمود آن مرغ را هر گون شگفت ** تا که باشد کاندر آید او بگفت‌‌

Showing the bird every sort of hidden (unfamiliar) thing (in the hope) that maybe it would begin to speak.

جولقیی سر برهنه می‌‌گذشت ** با سر بی‌‌مو چو پشت طاس و طشت‌‌

Meanwhile a bare-headed dervish, clad in a jawlaq (coarse woollen frock), passed by, with a head hairless as the outside of bowl and basin.

طوطی اندر گفت آمد در زمان ** بانگ بر درویش زد که هی فلان‌‌ 260

Thereupon the parrot cried to the dervish, as rational persons (might have done).

از چه ای کل با کلان آمیختی ** تو مگر از شیشه روغن ریختی‌‌

How were you mixed up with the bald, O baldpate? Did you, then, spill oil from the bottle?”

از قیاسش خنده آمد خلق را ** کو چو خود پنداشت صاحب دلق را

The bystanders laughed at the parrot's inference, because it deemed the wearer of the frock to be like itself.

کار پاکان را قیاس از خود مگیر ** گر چه ماند در نبشتن شیر و شیر

Do not measure the actions of holy men by (the analogy of) yourself, though shér (lion) and shír (milk) are similar in writing.