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3584-3593

  • هر یکی از دیگری استوده‌تر  ** در سخا و در وغا و کر و فر 
  • Each one (was) more praiseworthy than another in generosity and in battle and in exercising royal sway.

  • پیش شه شه‌زادگان استاده جمع  ** قرة العینان شه هم‌چون سه شمع  3585
  • The princes, (who were) the delight of the King's eye, stood together, like three candles, before the King,

  • از ره پنهان ز عینین پسر  ** می‌کشید آبی نخیل آن پدر 
  • And the father's palm-tree was drawing water by a hidden channel from the two fountains (eyes) of the son.

  • تا ز فرزند آب این چشمه شتاب  ** می‌رود سوی ریاض مام و باب 
  • So long as the water of this fountain is running swiftly from the son towards the gardens of his mother and father,

  • تازه می‌باشد ریاض والدین  ** گشته جاری عینشان زین هر دو عین 
  • His parents' gardens will always be fresh: their fountain is made to flow by (the water from) both these fountains.

  • چون شود چشمه ز بیماری علیل  ** خشک گردد برگ و شاخ آن نخیل 
  • (But) when from sickness the (son's) fountain fails, the leaves and boughs of the (father's) palm-tree become withered.

  • خشکی نخلش همی‌گوید پدید  ** که ز فرزندان شجر نم می‌کشید  3590
  • The withering of his palm-tree tells plainly that the tree was drawing moisture from the son.

  • ای بسا کاریز پنهان هم‌چنین  ** متصل با جانتان یا غافلین 
  • How many a hidden conduit is connected in like fashion with your souls, O ye heedless ones!

  • ای کشیده ز آسمان و از زمین  ** مایه‌ها تا گشته جسم تو سمین 
  • O thou who hast drawn stocks (of nourishment) from heaven and earth, so that thy body has grown fat,

  • عاریه‌ست این کم همی‌باید فشارد  ** کانچ بگرفتی همی‌باید گزارد 
  • (All) this is a loan: thou need’st not stuff (thy body) so much, for thou must needs pay back what thou hast taken—