جمله پاکیها از آن دریا برند ** قطره‌هااش یک به یک میناگرند

All purities are fetched from that ocean: its drops, every one, are alchemists.

شاه شاهانست و بلک شاه‌ساز ** وز برای چشم بد نامش ایاز

He is the King of kings; nay, he is the King-maker, though on account of the evil eye his name is “Ayáz.”

چشمهای نیک هم بر وی به دست ** از ره غیرت که حسنش بی‌حدست

Even the good eyes are evil to him in respect of (their) jealousy, for his beauty is infinite.

یک دهان خواهم به پهنای فلک ** تا بگویم وصف آن رشک ملک

I want a mouth as broad as heaven to describe the qualities of him who is envied by the angels;

ور دهان یابم چنین و صد چنین ** تنگ آید در فغان این حنین 1885

And if I should get a mouth like this and a hundred times as (broad as) this, it would be too narrow for (utterance of) this longing's distressful cry.

این قدر گر هم نگویم ای سند ** شیشه‌ی دل از ضعیفی بشکند

(Yet), if I should not utter even this (little) amount, O trusted (friend), the phial, (which is) my heart, would burst from weakness (inability to contain its emotion).

شیشه‌ی دل را چو نازک دیده‌ام ** بهر تسکین بس قبا بدریده‌ام

Since I have seen my heart's phial (to be) fragile, I have rent many a mantle in order to allay (my pain).

من سر هر ماه سه روز ای صنم ** بی‌گمان باید که دیوانه شوم

Beyond doubt, O worshipful one, I must become mad for three days at the beginning of every month.

هین که امروز اول سه روزه است ** روز پیروزست نه پیروزه است

Hark, to-day is the first of the triduum: ’tis the day of triumph (pírúz), not (the day of) the turquoise (pírúza).

هر دلی که اندر غم شه می‌بود ** دم به دم او را سر مه می‌بود 1890

Every heart that is in love with the King, for it (for that heart) ’tis always the beginning of the month.