گفت پیری مر طبیبی را که من ** در زحیرم از دماغ خویشتن‏

An old man said to a doctor, “I am in torment because of my brain.”

گفت از پیری است آن ضعف دماغ ** گفت بر چشمم ز ظلمت هست داغ‏

The doctor replied, “That weakness of brain is from age.” Said the old man, “There are spots of darkness on my eyes.”

گفت از پیری است ای شیخ قدیم ** گفت پشتم درد می‏آید عظیم‏ 3090

“It is from age, O ancient Shaykh,” said the doctor. “Awful pain comes in my back,” said he.

گفت از پیری است ای شیخ نزار ** گفت هر چه می‏خورم نبود گوار

“It is from age, O emaciated Shaykh” said the doctor. “Whatever I eat,” said he, “is not digested.”

گفت ضعف معده هم از پیری است ** گفت وقت دم مرا دم گیری است‏

The doctor replied, “Weakness of stomach also is (the result) of age.” Said he, “When I breathe, respiration is hard for me.”

گفت آری انقطاع دم بود ** چون رسد پیری دو صد علت شود

“Yes,” he said, “it is asthma*; when old age arrives, two hundred diseases come on.”

گفت ای احمق بر این بر دوختی ** از طبیبی تو همین آموختی‏

“O fool,” he exclaimed, “you have stuck at this: this is all that you have learned of medicine.

ای مدمغ عقلت این دانش نداد ** که خدا هر رنج را درمان نهاد 3095

O crack-brained man, your intellect has not given you this knowledge, that God hath appointed a remedy for every pain.

تو خر احمق ز اندک مایگی ** بر زمین ماندی ز کوته‏پایگی‏

You, stupid ass, from poorness of ability have remained (fallen) on the ground for want of a sufficient foothold.”

پس طبیبش گفت ای عمر تو شصت ** این غضب وین خشم هم از پیری است‏

Then the doctor said to him, “O sexagenarian, this anger and this choler are also from old age.