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3029-3038

  • چونک جعفر رفت سوی قلعه‌ای  ** قلعه پیش کام خشکش جرعه‌ای 
  • When Ja‘far advanced against a certain fortress, the fortress (seemed) to his dry palate (to be no more than) a single gulp.

  • یک سواره تاخت تا قلعه بکر  ** تا در قلعه ببستند از حذر  3030
  • Riding alone, he charged up to the fortress, so that they (the garrison) locked the fortress-gate in dread.

  • زهره نه کس را که پیش آید به جنگ  ** اهل کشتی را چه زهره با نهنگ 
  • No one dared to meet him in battle: what stomach have the ship's crew (to contend) with a leviathan?

  • روی آورد آن ملک سوی وزیر  ** که چه چاره‌ست اندرین وقت ای مشیر 
  • The king turned to his vizier, saying, “What is to be done in this crisis, Counsellor?”

  • گفت آنک ترک گویی کبر و فن  ** پیش او آیی به شمشیر و کفن 
  • He replied, “(The only remedy is) that you should bid farewell to pride and cunning, and come to him with sword and shroud.”

  • گفت آخر نه یکی مردیست فرد  ** گفت منگر خوار در فردی مرد 
  • “Why,” said the king, “is not he a single man (and) alone?” He (the vizier) replied, “Do not look with contempt on the man's loneliness.

  • چشم بگشا قلعه را بنگر نکو  ** هم‌چو سیمابست لرزان پیش او  3035
  • Open your eye: look well at the fortress: it is trembling before him like quicksilver.

  • شسته در زین آن‌چنان محکم‌پیست  ** گوییا شرقی و غربی با ویست 
  • He sits (alone) on the saddle, (but) his nerve is just as unshaken as if an (army of the) East and West were accompanying him.

  • چند کس هم‌چون فدایی تاختند  ** خویشتن را پیش او انداختند 
  • Several men rushed forward, like Fidá’ís (desperate assassins), and flung themselves into combat with him.

  • هر یکی را او بگرزی می‌فکند  ** سر نگوسار اندر اقدام سمند 
  • He felled each of them with a blow of his mace (so that they were hurled) headlong at the feet of his steed.