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1159-1168

  • از چنو شاعر نس از تو بحردست ** ده هزاری که بگفتم اندکست
  • From a poet like him intellect (displays itself); from thee, whose hand is like the ocean (in bounty), the (sum of) ten thousand (dinars) which I mentioned is little.”

  • فقه گفت آن شاه را و فلسفه ** تا برآمد عشر خرمن از کفه 1160
  • He argued and reasoned with the king until the tithe on the threshed grain was made up out of the unthreshed ears of corn (which remain on the threshing-floor).

  • ده هزارش داد و خلعت درخورش ** خانه‌ی شکر و ثنا گشت آن سرش
  • He (the king) gave him the ten thousand (dinars) and the robes of honour suitable to him: his head became a house of thanksgiving and praise.

  • پس تفحص کرد کین سعی کی بود ** شاه را اهلیت من کی نمود
  • Then he made inquiry, saying, “Whose work was this? Who declared my merit to the king?”

  • پس بگفتندش فلان‌الدین وزیر ** آن حسن نام و حسن خلق و ضمیر
  • So they told him, “(It was) —— al-Dín, the vizier, he whose name is Hasan and whose disposition and heart are good (hasan).”

  • در ثنای او یکی شعری دراز ** بر نبشت و سوی خانه رفت باز
  • He wrote a long poem in praise of him (the vizier) and returned home.

  • بی‌زبان و لب همان نعمای شاه ** مدح شه می‌کرد و خلعتهای شاه 1165
  • Without tongue or lip (mutely) that bounty of the king and those robes of honour bestowed by the king were praising the king.

  • باز آمدن آن شاعر بعد چند سال به امید همان صله و هزار دینار فرمودن بر قاعده‌ی خویش و گفتن وزیر نو هم حسن نام شاه را کی این سخت بسیارست و ما را خرجهاست و خزینه خالیست و من او را بده یک آن خشنود کنم
  • How after several years the poet came back in the hope of (receiving) the same reward, and how the king according to his custom ordered a thousand dinars to be given to him, and how the new vizier, who was also named Hasan, said to the king, "This is very much: we have (great) expenses and the treasury is empty, and I will satisfy him with a tenth of that (sum)."

  • بعد سالی چند بهر رزق و کشت ** شاعر از فقر و عوز محتاج گشت
  • After some years the poet, on account of poverty and destitution, became in need for daily bread and seed-produce (the means of livelihood).

  • گفت وقت فقر و تنگی دو دست ** جست و جوی آزموده بهترست
  • He said, “At the time of poverty and close-handedness (want), it is better to seek out one who has been tried.

  • درگهی را که آزمودم در کرم ** حاجت نو را بدان جانب برم
  • The court which I have tried in regard to generosity—I will carry the new request to the same quarter.”