خود نه آن بویست این که اندر جهان ** صد هزاران پرده‌اش دارد نهان

In sooth this is not a scent that thousands of veils will keep hidden in the world.

پر شد از تیزی او صحرا و دشت ** دشت چه کز نه فلک هم در گذشت

The desert and plain are filled with its pungency. What (of the) plain? for it hath passed even beyond the nine spheres (of Heaven).

این سر خم را به کهگل در مگیر ** کین برهنه نیست خود پوشش‌پذیر

Do not daub the head of the jar with mortar, for indeed this naked one does not admit of covering.

لطف کن ای رازدان رازگو ** آنچ بازت صید کردش بازگو 1825

Show kindness: O thou who knowest and canst tell the mystery, declare that which thy falcon (thy spirit) has made its prey.”

گفت بوی بوالعجب آمد به من ** هم‌چنانک مر نبی را از یمن

He said, “A marvellous scent is come to me, even as (a scent came) for the Prophet's sake from Yemen;

که محمد گفت بر دست صبا ** از یمن می‌آیدم بوی خدا

For Mohammed said, ‘The scent of God is coming to me from Yemen, (wafted) on the hand of the zephyr.’”

بوی رامین می‌رسد از جان ویس ** بوی یزدان می‌رسد هم از اویس

The scent of Rámín is coming from the soul of Wís; the scent of God, too, is coming from Uways.

از اویس و از قرن بوی عجب ** مر نبی را مست کرد و پر طرب

From Uways and from Qaran a wondrous scent made the Prophet drunken and full of rapture.

چون اویس از خویش فانی گشته بود ** آن زمینی آسمانی گشته بود 1830

Since Uways had passed away from himself, that earthly one (Uways) had become heavenly.

آن هلیله‌ی پروریده در شکر ** چاشنی تلخیش نبود دگر

The myrobalan conserved in sugar—its bitter taste is not (retained) any more.