این چنین قندی پر از زهر ار عدو ** خوش بنوشد چت حسد آید برو

If thy enemy delight in eating such a poisonous sugar, what envy of him would come to thee?

با نشاط آن زهر می‌کردید نوش ** مرگتان خفیه گرفته هر دو گوش

Ye were eating that poison with glee, (while) Death had secretly laid hold of both your ears.

من نمی‌کردم غزا از بهر آن ** تا ظفر یابم فرو گیرم جهان 4550

I did not make war for the sake of gaining victory and conquering the world,

کین جهان جیفه‌ست و مردار و رخیص ** بر چنین مردار چون باشم حریص

For this world is a carcase and carrion and vile: how should I be covetous of such carrion as this?

سگ نیم تا پرچم مرده کنم ** عیسی‌ام آیم که تا زنده‌ش کنم

I am not a dog that I should tear off the top-knot of the dead; I am (like) Jesus: I come to make him (the dead) living.

زان همی‌کردم صفوف جنگ چاک ** تا رهانم مر شما را از هلاک

I was cleaving the battle-ranks for the purpose that I might deliver you from destruction.

زان نمی‌برم گلوهای بشر ** تا مرا باشد کر و فر و حشر

I do not cut men's throats in order that power and glory and followers may be mine,

زان همی‌برم گلویی چند تا ** زان گلوها عالمی یابد رها 4555

(But) I cut some throats in order that a (whole) world (of people) may obtain deliverance from those throats,

که شما پروانه‌وار از جهل خویش ** پیش آتش می‌کنید این حمله کیش

For ye in your ignorance make a habit of rushing thus, like moths, at the fire,

من همی‌رانم شما را همچو مست ** از در افتادن در آتش با دو دست

(While) I, (furiously) as a drunken man, drive you away with both hands (to save you) from falling into the fire.