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  • مر زبان را داد صد افسون‌گری ** وانک کان را داد زر جعفری
  • (That which) gave a hundred enchantments to the tongue, and that which gave the (pure) gold of Ja‘far to the mine.

  • چون در زرادخانه باز شد ** غمزه‌های چشم تیرانداز شد
  • When the door of the Armoury was opened, the amorous glances became archers,

  • بر دلم زد تیر و سوداییم کرد ** عاشق شکر و شکرخاییم کرد 4135
  • And shot arrows at my heart and frenzied me and made me in love with thanksgiving and sugar-chewing.

  • عاشق آنم که هر آن آن اوست ** عقل و جان جاندار یک مرجان اوست
  • I am the lover of that One to whom every ‘that’ belongs: of (even) a single pearl of His the bodyguard is Intellect and Spirit.

  • من نلافم ور بلافم همچو آب ** نیست در آتش‌کشی‌ام اضطراب
  • I do not boast, or if I boast, (’tis only in appearance, for) like water, I have no trouble in quenching fire.

  • چون بدزدم چون حفیظ مخزن اوست ** چون نباشم سخت‌رو پشت من اوست
  • How should I steal when He is the keeper of the treasury? How should not I be hard-faced (bold and resolute)? He is my support.

  • هر که از خورشید باشد پشت گرم ** سخت رو باشد نه بیم او را نه شرم
  • Every one whose back is warmed by the Sun will be hard-faced: he will have neither dread nor shame.

  • همچو روی آفتاب بی‌حذر ** گشت رویش خصم‌سوز و پرده‌در 4140
  • His face has become foe-burning and veil-rending, like the face of the peerless Sun.

  • هر پیمبر سخت‌رو بد در جهان ** یکسواره کوفت بر جیش شهان
  • Every prophet was hard-faced in this world, and beat single-handed against the army of the kings,

  • رو نگردانید از ترس و غمی ** یک‌تنه تنها بزد بر عالمی
  • And did not avert his face from any fear or pain, (but) single and alone dashed against a (whole) world.