مرجع این جسم خاکم هم به خاک ** مرجع تو هم به خاک ای سهمناک

To earth also will return this earthen body of mine; to earth thou likewise wilt return, O terrible one.

اصل ما و اصل جمله سرکشان ** هست از خاکی و آن را صد نشان 2315

Our origin and the origin of all the proud is from a piece of earth, and (there are) a hundred signs thereof;

که مدد از خاک می‌گیرد تنت ** از غذایی خاک پیچد گردنت

For thy body receives support (sustenance) from the earth, and from earthly nutriment thy neck is wrapped in folds (of flesh).

چون رود جان می‌شود او باز خاک ** اندر آن گور مخوف سهمناک

When the spirit departs, it (the body) will again become earth in the dreaded and horrible grave.

هم تو و هم ما و هم اشباه تو ** خاک گردند و نماند جاه تو

Both thou and we and all who resemble thee will become earth, and thy power will remain no more.”

گفت غیر این نسب نامیت هست ** مر ترا آن نام خود اولیترست

He (Pharaoh) said, “Thou hast a name other than this lineage: truly that name is more proper for thee—

بنده‌ی فرعون و بنده‌ی بندگانش ** که ازو پرورد اول جسم و جانش 2320

‘Slave of Pharaoh and slave of his slaves,’ (a slave) whose body and soul were first nurtured by him (Pharaoh),

بنده‌ی یاغی طاغی ظلوم ** زین وطن بگریخته از فعل شوم

A hostile, insolent and unrighteous slave, who fled from this country on account of an ill-omened deed.

خونی و غداری و حق‌ناشناس ** هم برین اوصاف خود می‌کن قیاس

Thou art a murderer and treacherous and ungrateful: from just these qualities, forsooth, form a judgement (as to the rest).

در غریبی خوار و درویش و خلق ** که ندانستی سپاس ما و حق

(Thou art) in exile, despised and poor and threadbare, since thou didst not acknowledge gratitude and obligation to me.”