جبرئیل عشقم و سدره‌م توی ** من سقیمم عیسی مریم توی

I am Love's Gabriel, and thou art my Lotus-tree; I am the sick man, and thou art (my) Jesus son of Mary.

جوش ده آن بحر گوهربار را ** خوش بپرس امروز این بیمار را

Let that pearl-shedding sea (of thine) break into surge: to-day ask kindly after this ailing one.

چون تو آن او شدی بحر آن اوست ** گرچه این دم نوبت بحران اوست 2000

When thou hast become his, the sea (of spiritual mysteries) is his, even though this is the hour of his crisis.

این خود آن ناله‌ست کو کرد آشکار ** آنچ پنهانست یا رب زینهار

This (Mathnawí) is only the wailful music that he has uttered; (as for) that which is (kept) hidden (within him), (have) mercy, O Lord!

دو دهان داریم گویا هم‌چو نی ** یک دهان پنهانست در لبهای وی

We have two vocal mouths, like the reed: one mouth is hidden in his lips.

یک دهان نالان شده سوی شما ** های هویی در فکنده در هوا

One mouth is wailing unto you: it lets (many) a shrill note fall on the air;

لیک داند هر که او را منظرست ** که فغان این سری هم زان سرست

But every one who hath insight knows that the lamentation (issuing) at this end is (inspired) from that end.

دمدمه‌ی این نای از دمهای اوست ** های هوی روح از هیهای اوست 2005

The noise of this reed is from his breaths: the spirit's outcry is from his outcry.

گر نبودی با لبش نی را سمر ** نی جهان را پر نکردی از شکر

If the reed had no converse with his lip, the reed would not fill the world with (music sweet as) sugar.

با کی خفتی وز چه پهلو خاستی ** که چنین پر جوش چون دریاستی

With whom hast thou slept and from what (whose) side hast thou risen, that thou art so full of agitation, like the sea?