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1215-1224

  • خلقت طفل از چه اندر نه مه‌است  ** زانک تدریج از شعار آن شه‌است  1215
  • Wherefore is the creation of a child (completed) in nine months? Because gradualness is a characteristic of (the action of) that King.

  • خلقت آدم چرا چل صبح بود  ** اندر آن گل اندک‌اندک می‌فزود 
  • Why was (the time occupied in) the creation of Adam forty mornings? (Because) He (God) was adding (perfections) to that clay little by little,

  • نه چو تو ای خام که اکنون تاختی  ** طفلی و خود را تو شیخی ساختی 
  • Not like you, O foolish one, who have rushed forward just now: you are a child, and you have made yourself out to be an Elder.

  • بر دویدی چون کدو فوق همه  ** کو ترا پای جهاد و ملحمه 
  • You have run up, like a gourd, to the top of all, (but) where is the (spiritual) warfare and combat to sustain you?

  • تکیه کردی بر درختان و جدار  ** بر شدی ای اقرعک هم قرع‌وار 
  • You have rested on trees and walls for support: you have climbed up like a pumpkin, O little baldhead.

  • اول ار شد مرکبت سرو سهی  ** لیک آخر خشک و بی‌مغزی تهی  1220
  • If at first you mounted on a tall cypress, yet in the end you are dry and pulpless and empty.

  • رنگ سبزت زرد شد ای قرع زود  ** زانک از گلگونه بود اصلی نبود 
  • Your green (fresh) colour soon turned yellow (faded), O pumpkin, for it was derived from rouge, it was not original.

  • داستان آن عجوزه کی روی زشت خویشتن را جندره و گلگونه می‌ساخت و ساخته نمی‌شد و پذیرا نمی‌آمد 
  • Story of the old woman who used to depilate and rouge her ugly face, though it could never be put right and become pleasing.

  • بود کمپیری نودساله کلان  ** پر تشنج روی و رنگش زعفران 
  • There was a decrepit old woman aged ninety years, her face covered with wrinkles and her complexion (yellow as) saffron.

  • چون سر سفره رخ او توی توی  ** لیک در وی بود مانده عشق شوی 
  • Her face was in folds like the surface of a traveller's food-wallet, but there remained in her the passionate desire for a husband.

  • ریخت دندانهاش و مو چون شیر شد  ** قد کمان و هر حسش تغییر شد 
  • Her teeth had dropped out and her hair had become (white) as milk: her figure was (bent) like a bow, and every sense in her was decayed.