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.

شب همی‌جوشم در آتش همچو دیگ ** روز تا شب خون خورم مانند ریگ

During the night I boil on the fire, like a kettle; (all) day till nightfall I drink blood, like the sand.

من پشیمانم که مکر انگیختم ** از مراد خشم او بگریختم

I repent that I set contrivance afoot (in order to escape) and fled from that which his anger desired.

گو بران بر جان مستم خشم خویش ** عید قربان اوست و عاشق گاومیش 3895

Let him drive on (let him not restrain) his anger against my intoxicated soul: he is the Feast of the Sacrifice, and the lover is the buffalo (for slaughter).

گاو اگر خسپد وگر چیزی خورد ** بهر عید و ذبح او می‌پرورد

Whether the buffalo sleep or whether it eat something, he nurtures (fattens) it for the Feast and the slaughter.