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بسته بودش با رسنهای غلیظ ** احتیاطی کرده بودش آن حفیظ 1040
- He had bound it with thick ropes: that careful keeper had taken great precaution for it.
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در درنگ انتظار و اتفاق ** تافت بر آن مار خورشید عراق
- During the delay (interval) of expectation and coming together, the sun of ‘Iráq shone upon the snake.
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آفتاب گرم‌سیرش گرم کرد ** رفت از اعضای او اخلاط سرد
- The sun of the hot country warmed it; the cold humours went out of its limbs.
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مرده بود و زنده گشت او از شگفت ** اژدها بر خویش جنبیدن گرفت
- It had been dead, and it revived: from astonishment (at feeling the sun's heat) the dragon began to uncoil itself.
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خلق را از جنبش آن مرده مار ** گشتشان آن یک تحیر صد هزار
- By the stirring of that dead serpent the people's amazement was multiplied a hundred thousand fold.
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با تحیر نعره‌ها انگیختند ** جملگان از جنبشش بگریختند 1045
- With amazement they started shrieking and fled en masse from its motion.
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می‌سکست او بند و زان بانگ بلند ** هر طرف می‌رفت چاقاچاق بند
- It set about bursting the bonds, and at that loud outcry (of the people) the bonds on every side went crack, crack.
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بندها بسکست و بیرون شد ز زیر ** اژدهایی زشت غران همچو شیر
- It burst the bonds and glided out from beneath—a hideous dragon roaring like a lion.
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در هزیمت بس خلایق کشته شد ** از فتاده و کشتگان صد پشته شد
- Many people were killed in the rout: a hundred heaps were made of the fallen slain.
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مارگیر از ترس بر جا خشک گشت ** که چه آوردم من از کهسار و دشت
- The snake-catcher became paralysed with fear on the spot, crying, “What have I brought from the mountains and the desert?”