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145-154

  • اندر افتادند چون گرگان مست ** پاک خوردندش فرو شستند دست 145
  • They fell upon it like furious wolves, ate it clean up, and washed their hands.

  • آن یکی همره نخورد و پند داد ** که حدیث آن فقیرش بود یاد
  • One of the fellow-travellers did not eat (of it) and exhorted (the others to abstain), for the sayings of that dervish were remembered by him.

  • از کبابش مانع آمد آن سخن ** بخت نو بخشد ترا عقل کهن
  • Those words hindered him from (eating) its roasted flesh: old intelligence bestows on thee a new fortune.

  • پس بیفتادند و خفتند آن همه ** وان گرسنه چون شبان اندر رمه
  • Then they all fell down and slept, but the hungry one (was awake) like the shepherd in the flock.

  • دید پیلی سهمناکی می‌رسید ** اولا آمد سوی حارس دوید
  • He saw a frightful elephant approaching: first she came and ran towards him who was keeping guard.

  • بوی می‌کرد آن دهانش را سه بار ** هیچ بویی زو نیامد ناگوار 150
  • She smelt his mouth thrice: no disagreeable smell came from it.

  • چند باری گرد او گشت و برفت ** مر ورا نازرد آن شه‌پیل زفت
  • She paced round him several times and went off: the huge queen-elephant did him no hurt.

  • مر لب هر خفته‌ای را بوی کرد ** بوی می‌آمد ورا زان خفته مرد
  • She smelt the lips of every sleeper, and the smell (of her young one's flesh) was coming to her from each of those slumbering men.

  • از کباب پیل‌زاده خورده بود ** بر درانید و بکشتش پیل زود
  • He (each man) had eaten of the roasted flesh of the young elephant: the (mother) elephant quickly tore him to pieces and killed him.

  • در زمان او یک بیک را زان گروه ** می‌درانید و نبودش زان شکوه
  • At once she set about rending the people of that company one by one, and she had no awe of (doing) it.