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2475-2484

  • هر یکی تاریخ عمر ابدا کنید  ** پیرتر اولیست باقی تن زنید  2475
  • Let each (of us) declare the date (antiquity) of his life: the oldest has the best right, let the others suffer (disappointment) in silence.

  • گفت قج مرج من اندر آن عهود  ** با قج قربان اسمعیل بود 
  • In those times,” said the ram, “my pasturage was (shared) with the ram that was sacrificed for Ismá‘íl (Ishmael).”

  • گاو گفتا بوده‌ام من سال‌خورد  ** جفت آن گاوی کش آدم جفت کرد 
  • The ox said, “I am the (most) advanced in years, (I was) coupled with the ox that Adam yoked.

  • جفت آن گاوم که آدم جد خلق  ** در زراعت بر زمین می‌کرد فلق 
  • I am the yoke-fellow of the ox with which Adam, the forefather of mankind, used to plough the earth in sowing.”

  • چون شنید از گاو و قج اشتر شگفت  ** سر فرود آورد و آن را برگرفت 
  • When the camel heard the ox and the ram (make these assertions) he was amazed: he lowered his head and picked up that (bunch of grass).

  • در هوا بر داشت آن بند قصیل  ** اشتر بختی سبک بی‌قال و قیل  2480
  • Promptly, without any palaver, the Bactrian camel raised the bunch of fresh barley in the air,

  • که مرا خود حاجت تاریخ نیست  ** کین چنین جسمی و عالی گردنیست 
  • Saying, “I, in sooth, need no (support from) chronology, since I have such a (stout) body and high neck.

  • خود همه کس داند ای جان پدر  ** که نباشم از شما من خردتر 
  • Indeed every one knows, O father's darling, that I am not smaller than you.

  • داند این را هرکه ز اصحاب نهاست  ** که نهاد من فزون‌تر از شماست 
  • Whoever is one of those possessed of intelligence knows this, that my nature is superior to yours.”

  • جملگان دانند کین چرخ بلند  ** هست صد چندان که این خاک نژند 
  • (The Christian said), “All know that this lofty heaven is a hundred times as great as this low earth.