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2774-2783

  • آید و گیرد وثاق ما گرو  ** که رسیدم نوبت ما شد تو رو 
  • They come and seize our houses in distraint, (each one) saying, “I have arrived, ’tis my turn, do thou begone!”

  • چون پسر چشم خرد را بر گشاد  ** زود بابا رخت بر گردون نهاد  2775
  • When the son has opened the eye of reason (attained to years of discretion), the father at once puts his (own) baggage in the cart.

  • جاده‌ی شاهست آن زین سو روان  ** وآن از آن سو صادران و واردان 
  • ’Tis (like) the King's highway—(travellers) departing and arriving, one going in this direction, another in that direction.

  • نیک بنگر ما نشسته می‌رویم  ** می‌نبینی قاصد جای نویم 
  • Consider well! We, (though apparently) sitting still, are (really) marching: don't you see that we are bound for a new place (of abode)?

  • بهر حالی می‌نگیری راس مال  ** بلک از بهر غرض‌ها در مل 
  • You do not get (and spend) your capital for any present need; nay, but (you keep it) for your ultimate purposes.

  • پس مسافر این بود ای ره‌پرست  ** که مسیر و روش در مستقبلست 
  • The traveller, then, O devotee of the Way, is he whose march and face are towards the future,

  • هم‌چنانک از پرده‌ی دل بی‌کلال  ** دم به دم در می‌رسد خیل خیال  2780
  • Even as the troops of Phantasy are at every moment arriving (and passing) unweariedly through the curtains of the heart.

  • گر نه تصویرات از یک مغرس‌اند  ** در پی هم سوی دل چون می‌رسند 
  • If (these) ideas are not (sprung) from one (and the same) Plantation, how are they coming to the heart on each other's heels?

  • جوق جوق اسپاه تصویرات ما  ** سوی چشمه‌ی دل شتابان از ظما 
  • Company after company, the army of our ideas, (impelled) by thirst, is speeding towards the fountain of the heart.

  • جره‌ها پر می‌کنند و می‌روند  ** دایما پیدا و پنهان می‌شوند 
  • They fill their jars and go: they are continually appearing and vanishing.