آخری را پر ز گاوان و خران ** حبس آهو کرد چون استمگران

(Acting) like oppressors, he made a stable full of cows and donkeys the prison of the gazelle.

آهو از وحشت به هر سو می‌گریخت ** او به پیش آن خران شب کاه ریخت 835

The gazelle, wild with terror, was fleeing in every direction: at night he (the hunter) poured (pieces of chopped) straw before the donkeys.

از مجاعت و اشتها هر گاو و خر ** کاه را می‌خورد خوشتر از شکر

(Moved) by hunger and (ravenous) appetite, every cow and donkey was devouring the straw, (as though it were) sweeter than sugar.

گاه آهو می‌رمید از سو به سو ** گه ز دود و گرد که می‌تافت رو

Now the gazelle would run in fright from side to side, now it would turn its face away from the smoke and dust of the straw.

هرکرا با ضد خود بگذاشتند ** آن عقوبت را چو مرگ انگاشتند

Whosoever is left (in company) with his opposite, they (who are wise) have deemed that punishment (terrible) as death,

تا سلیمان گفت که آن هدهد اگر ** هجر را عذری نگوید معتبر

So that Solomon said, “Unless the hoopoe make a respectable excuse for his absence,

بکشمش یا خود دهم او را عذاب ** یک عذاب سخت بیرون از حساب 840

I will kill him or inflict upon him a torment, a torment severe beyond (all) calculation.”

هان کدامست آن عذاب این معتمد ** در قفص بودن به غیر جنس خود

Hark, what is that torment, O trusted (friend)? To be in a cage without thy congener.

زین بدن اندر عذابی ای بشر ** مرغ روحت بسته با جنسی دگر

O Man, thou art in torment on account of this body: the bird, thy spirit, is imprisoned with one of another kind.

روح بازست و طبایع زاغها ** دارد از زاغان و چغدان داغها

The spirit is a falcon, and the (bodily) properties are crows: it has (receives) painful brands from the crows and owls.