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در عماد الملک این اندیشهها ** گشته جوشان چون اسد در بیشهها
- In the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk these thoughts were raging like a lion (rushing) through the jungles.
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ایستاده پیش سلطان ظاهرش ** در ریاض غیب جان طایرش 3435
- His exterior (person) stood before the Sultan, (but) his soaring spirit was in the meadows of the Unseen.
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چون ملایک او به اقلیم الست ** هر دمی میشد به شرب تازه مست
- Like the angels, he was momently being intoxicated with fresh draughts (of spiritual wine) in the realm of Alast;
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اندرون سور و برون چون پر غمی ** در تن همچون لحد خوش عالمی
- Inwardly (merry as) a wedding-feast, but outwardly like a man filled with sorrow; a delectable world (concealed) in a tomb-like body.
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او درین حیرت بد و در انتظار ** تا چه پیدا آید از غیب و سرار
- He was in this (state of) bewilderment and waiting to see what would appear from the (world of) things occult and mysterious,
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اسپ را اندر کشیدند آن زمان ** پیش خوارمشاه سرهنگان کشان
- (When) at that time the officers brought the horse along into the presence of the Khwárizmsháh.
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الحق اندر زیر این چرخ کبود ** آنچنان کره به قد و تگ نبود 3440
- Verily beneath this azure sky there was no (other) colt like that in (tallness and comeliness of) figure and in fleetness.
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میربودی رنگ او هر دیده را ** مرحب آن از برق و مه زاییده را
- Its colour (splendid appearance) dazzled every eye: (all would exclaim), “Hail to the (steed) born of the lightning and the moon!”
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همچو مه همچون عطارد تیزرو ** گوییی صرصر علف بودش نه جو
- It moved as swiftly as the moon and Mercury: you might say that its fodder was the sarsar wind, not barley.
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ماه عرصهی آسمان را در شبی ** میبرد اندر مسیر و مذهبی
- The moon traverses the expanse of heaven in one night during a single journey and course.