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این جهان پر آفتاب و نور ماه ** او بهشته سر فرو برده به چاه
- He (the ill-fated man) has forsaken this world full of sunshine and moonlight and has plunged his head into the pit,
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که اگر حقست پس کو روشنی ** سر ز چه بردار و بنگر ای دنی
- Saying, “If it is true, then where is the radiance?” Lift up thy head from the pit and look, O miserable wretch!
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جمله عالم شرق و غرب آن نور یافت ** تا تو در چاهی نخواهد بر تو تافت
- The whole world, east and west, obtained that light, (but) whilst thou art in the pit it will not shine upon thee.
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چه رها کن رو به ایوان و کروم ** کم ستیز اینجا بدان کاللج شوم
- Leave the pit, go to the palace and the vineyards; do not wrangle here, know that quarrelling is unlucky.
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هین مگو کاینک فلانی کشت کرد ** در فلان سالی ملخ کشتش بخورد 4800
- Beware! Do not say, “Mark you, such and such a one sowed seed, and in such and such a year the locusts devoured what he had sown.
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پس چرا کارم که اینجا خوف هست ** من چرا افشانم این گندم ز دست
- Why, then, should I sow? for there is danger in this respect. Why should I scatter this corn(-seed) from my hand?”
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و آنک او نگذاشت کشت و کار را ** پر کند کوری تو انبار را
- And (meanwhile) he who did not neglect to sow and labour fills his barn (with grain), to your confusion.
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چون دری می‌کوفت او از سلوتی ** عاقبت در یافت روزی خلوتی
- Since he (the lover) was patiently knocking at a door, at last one day he obtained a meeting in private.
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جست از بیم عسس شب او به باغ ** یار خود را یافت چون شمع و چراغ
- From fear of the night-patrol he sprang by night into the orchard: (there) he found his beloved, (radiant) as candle and lamp.
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گفت سازنده‌ی سبب را آن نفس ** ای خدا تو رحمتی کن بر عسس 4805
- At that moment he said to the Maker of the means (by which he had attained to his desire), “O God, have mercy on the night-patrol!