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مرغ را گر ذوق آید از صفیر ** چون که جنس خود نیابد شد نفیر 895
- Although the bird is delighted by (the fowler's) whistle, it takes fright when it (sees him and) does not find its own congener.
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تشنه را گر ذوق آید از سراب ** چون رسد در وی گریزد جوید آب
- Although the thirsty man is delighted by the mirage, he runs away when he comes up to it, and seeks for water.
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مفلسان هم خوش شوند از زر قلب ** لیک آن رسوا شود در دار ضرب
- Moreover, the insolent are pleased with base gold, yet that (gold) is put to shame in the mint.
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تا زر اندودیت از ره نفگند ** تا خیال کژ ترا چه نفگند
- (Take heed) lest gildedness (imposture) cast you out of the (right) way, lest false imagination cast you into the well.
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از کلیله باز جو آن قصه را ** و اندر آن قصه طلب کن حصه را
- Seek the story (illustrating this) from (the book of) Kalíla (and Dimna), and search out the moral (contained) in the story.
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بیان توکل و ترک جهد گفتن نخجیران به شیر
- Setting forth how the beasts of chase told the lion to trust in God and cease from exerting himself.
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طایفه‌‌ی نخجیر در وادی خوش ** بودشان از شیر دایم کش مکش 900
- A number of beasts of chase in a pleasant valley were continually harassed by a lion.
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بس که آن شیر از کمین درمی‌‌ربود ** آن چرا بر جمله ناخوش گشته بود
- Inasmuch as the lion was (springing) from ambush and carrying them away, that pasturage had become unpleasant to them all.
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حیله کردند آمدند ایشان بشیر ** کز وظیفه ما ترا داریم سیر
- They made a plot: they came to the lion, saying, “We will keep thee full-fed by means of a (fixed) allowance.
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بعد از این اندر پی صیدی میا ** تا نگردد تلخ بر ما این گیا
- Henceforth do not come in quest of any prey in order that this grass may not become bitter to us.”
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جواب گفتن شیر نخجیران را و فایده‌‌ی جهد گفتن
- How the lion answered the beasts and explained the advantage of exertion.
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گفت آری گر وفا بینم نه مکر ** مکرها بس دیده‌‌ام از زید و بکر
- “Yes,” said he, “if I see (find) good faith (on your part), not fraud, for often have I seen (suffered) frauds from Zayd and Bakr.