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  • خود نمی‌یابم یکی گوشی که من ** نکته‌ای گویم از آن چشم حسن
  • Verily, I do not find a single ear to which I should tell a mystery concerning that beauteous eye.

  • می‌چکید آن آب محمود جلیل ** می‌ربودی قطره‌اش را جبرئیل 2645
  • (If) the lauded and august water were to trickle (from that eye), Gabriel would (eagerly) carry off its drops,

  • تا بمالد در پر و منقال خویش ** گر دهد دستوریش آن خوب کیش
  • That he might rub them on his wings and beak, if that person of goodly practice give him permission.

  • باز گوید خشم کمپیر ار فروخت ** فر و نور و علم و صبرم را نسوخت
  • The falcon says, “If the anger of the old crone has blazed forth, (yet) it has not consumed my glory and splendour and self-denial and knowledge.

  • باز جانم باز صد صورت تند ** زخم بر ناقه نه بر صالح زند
  • The falcon, (which is) my spirit, will still weave a hundred forms: the blow falls on the she-camel, not on Sálih.

  • صالح از یک‌دم که آرد با شکوه ** صد چنان ناقه بزاید متن کوه
  • At a single awful breath that Sálih heaves, the back (womb) of the mountain will bring to birth a hundred such she-camels.”

  • دل همی گوید خموش و هوش دار ** ورنه درانید غیرت پود و تار 2650
  • (My) heart is saying, “Be silent and observe discretion; otherwise, the (Divine) jealousy will end the warp and woof (of thy existence).”

  • غیرتش را هست صد حلم نهان ** ورنه سوزیدی به یک دم صد جهان
  • His jealousy hath a hundred hidden clemencies; else in one moment it would consume a hundred worlds.

  • نخوت شاهی گرفتش جای پند ** تا دل خود را ز بند پند کند
  • Kingly pride seized the place of (left no room for) admonition in him (Pharaoh), so that he wrenched his heart away from the bonds of admonition,

  • که کنم بار رای هامان مشورت ** کوست پشت ملک و قطب مقدرت
  • Saying, “I will take counsel with Hámán, for he is the support of the kingdom and the pivot of power.”