یا بتابستان بیا وقت ثمر ** تا ببندم خدمتت را من کمر

Or come in summer, in the fruit-season, that I may brace my belt to do you service.

خیل و فرزندان و قومت را بیار ** در ده ما باش سه ماه و چهار

Bring your retinue and your children and kinsfolk, and stay in our village three or four months,

که بهاران خطه‌ی ده خوش بود ** کشت‌زار و لاله‌ی دلکش بود

For in spring the countryside is pleasant; there are sown fields and lovely anemones.”

وعده دادی شهری او را دفع حال ** تا بر آمد بعد وعده هشت سال 245

The townsman was (always) putting him off with promises, until eight years had elapsed since the (first) promise (was given).

او بهر سالی همی‌گفتی که کی ** عزم خواهی کرد کامد ماه دی

Every year he (the countryman) would say, “When will you set out on the journey?—for the month of December is (already) come,”

او بهانه ساختی کامسال‌مان ** از فلان خطه بیامد میهمان

And he (the townsman) would make an excuse, saying, “This year we have a guest who has come from such and such a district;

سال دیگر گر توانم وا رهید ** از مهمات آن طرف خواهم دوید

(But) next year I will run (down) to that part (of the country), if I can escape from the pressing affairs (which keep me at home).”

گفت هستند آن عیالم منتظر ** بهر فرزندان تو ای اهل بر

He (the countryman) said, “My family are (anxiously) expecting your children, O benefactor.”

باز هر سالی چو لکلک آمدی ** تا مقیم قبه‌ی شهری شدی 250

Every year he was coming back, like the stork, to reside in the townsman's pavilion,

خواجه هر سالی ز زر و مال خویش ** خرج او کردی گشادی بال خویش

And every year the Khwája would expend his gold and wealth upon him and open his wings (wide).