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  • زیر لب می‌گفتی از بیم عدو  ** کوری او بر مناره رو بگو 
  • From fear of the foe thou wert wont to speak under thy breath: (now), to his confusion, go up into the minaret and speak (aloud).”

  • می‌دمد در گوش هر غمگین بشیر  ** خیز ای مدبر ره اقبال گیر  1100
  • The announcer of glad news is shouting in the ear of every sorrowful one, “Arise, O unlucky man, and take the road to fortune.

  • ای درین حبس و درین گند و شپش  ** هین که تا کس نشنود رستی خمش 
  • O thou that art in this prison and amidst this stench and these lice, beware lest any one hear! Thou hast escaped (from prison): be silent!”

  • چون کنی خامش کنون ای یار من  ** کز بن هر مو بر آمد طبل‌زن 
  • How shouldst thou keep silence now, O my beloved, when a drummer has appeared from the root of every hair (in thy body)?

  • آن‌چنان کر شد عدو رشک‌خو  ** گوید این چندین دهل را بانگ کو 
  • The jealous foe has become so deaf (that) he says, “Where is the sound of all these drums?”

  • می‌زند بر روش ریحان که طریست  ** او ز کوری گوید این آسیب چیست 
  • The fresh sweet basil is touching his face, (but) in his blindness he says, “What is this annoyance?”

  • می‌شکنجد حور دستش می‌کشد  ** کور حیران کز چه دردم می‌کند  1105
  • The houri is nipping his hand and drawing (him towards her): the blind man is distraught and says, “Wherefore is he (some one) hurting me?

  • این کشاکش چیست بر دست و تنم  ** خفته‌ام بگذار تا خوابی کنم 
  • What is this (painful sense of) having my hand and body pulled hither and thither? I am asleep, let me sleep awhile.”

  • آنک در خوابش همی‌جویی ویست  ** چشم بگشا کان مه نیکو پیست 
  • He whom thou seekest in thy slumbers, this is He! Open thine eye, (thou wilt see) ’tis that auspicious Moon.

  • زان بلاها بر عزیزان بیش بود  ** کان تجمش یار با خوبان فزود 
  • Tribulations were (laid) more (heavily) upon (His) dear ones because the Beloved showed more coquettishness towards the beauteous (lovers).