سر فرود انداختند آن مهتران ** عذرجویان گشه زان نسیان به جان

Those princes cast down their heads, craving with (all) their soul to be excused for that (act of) forgetfulness.

از دل هر یک دو صد آه آن زمان ** هم‌چو دودی می‌شدی تا آسمان

At that moment from the heart of each one (of them) two hundred sighs were going (up), like a (great) smoke, to heaven.

کرد اشارت شه به جلاد کهن ** که ز صدرم این خسان را دور کن 4085

The King made a sign to the ancient executioner, as though to say, "Remove these vile wretches from my seat of honour.

این خسان چه لایق صدر من‌اند ** کز پی سنگ امر ما را بشکنند

How are these vile wretches worthy of my seat of honour, when they break my command for the sake of a stone?

امر ما پیش چنین اهل فساد ** بهر رنگین سنگ شد خوار و کساد

For the sake of a coloured stone my command is held contemptible and cheap by evil-doers like these.”

قصد شاه به کشتن امرا و شفاعت کردن ایاز پیش تخت سلطان کی ای شاه عالم العفو اولی

How the King was about to kill the Amirs, and how Ayáz made intercession before the royal throne, saying, “‘Tis better to forgive.”

پس ایاز مهرافزا بر جهید ** پیش تخت آن الغ سلطان دوید

Then Ayáz, who was abounding in love, sprang up and ran to the throne of that mighty Sultan.

سجده‌ای کرد و گلوی خود گرفت ** کای قبادی کز تو چرخ آرد شگفت

He made a prostration and spoke with bated breath, saying, "O Emperor at whom the celestial sphere is astounded,

ای همایی که همایان فرخی ** از تو دارند و سخاوت هر سخی 4090

O Humá from whom (all) humá’s have (their) auspiciousness, and every man (his) generosity,

ای کریمی که کرمهای جهان ** محو گردد پیش ایثارت نهان

O Noble One before whose self-sacrifice (all) acts of nobility in the world are hidden (eclipsed) and disappear,

ای لطیفی که گل سرخت بدید ** از خجالت پیرهن را بر درید

O Lovely One whom the red rose beheld and tore its shirt in shame,