صد ره و مخلص بود از چپ و راست ** از قضا بسته شود کو اژدهاست

There are a hundred ways and places of refuge on left and right, (but) they are barred by Destiny, for it is a dragon.”

جواب گفتن عاشق عاذلان را وتهدید کنندگان را

How the lover answered those who scolded and threatened him.

گفت من مستسقیم آبم کشد ** گرچه می‌دانم که هم آبم کشد

He said, “I am dropsical: the water draws me, though I know that the water too will kill me.

هیچ مستقسقی بنگریزد ز آب ** گر دو صد بارش کند مات و خراب 3885

None afflicted with dropsy will flee from the water, even if it checkmate and ruin him two hundred times.

گر بیاماسد مرا دست و شکم ** عشق آب از من نخواهد گشت کم

If my hands and belly become swollen, (yet) the passionate desire for the water will not abate (and depart) from me.

گویم آنگه که بپرسند از بطون ** کاشکی بحرم روان بودی درون

At the time when they ask me of my inward state, I say, ‘Would that the Sea were flowing within me!’

خیک اشکم گو بدر از موج آب ** گر بمیرم هست مرگم مستطاب

Let the water-skin, my belly, be burst by the waves of the water: if I die, my death is acceptable.

من بهر جایی که بینم آب جو ** رشکم آید بودمی من جای او

Wherever I see the water of a stream, jealousy comes over me (and I wish) that I might be in its place.

دست چون دف و شکم همچون دهل ** طبل عشق آب می‌کوبم چو گل 3890

(With) hands (swollen) like a tambourine and belly like a drum, I am beating the drum of (I am proclaiming) my love for the water, as the rose (does).

گر بریزد خونم آن روح الامین ** جرعه جرعه خون خورم همچون زمین

If that Trusty Spirit spill my blood, I will drink draught on draught of blood, like the earth.

چون زمین وچون جنین خون‌خواره‌ام ** تا که عاشق گشته‌ام این کاره‌ام

I am a blood-drinker, like the earth and like the embryo: (ever) since I became a lover I am (engaged) in this trade.