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روح زیبا چونک وا رست از جسد ** از قضا بی شک چنین چشمش رسد
- When the beauteous spirit is delivered from the body, no doubt an eye like this will be conferred upon it by (Divine) destiny.
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صد هزاران غیب پیشش شد پدید ** آنچ چشم محرمان بیند بدید 4645
- A hundred thousand mysteries were revealed to him: he beheld that which the eyes of the initiated behold.
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آنچ او اندر کتب بر خوانده بود ** چشم را در صورت آن بر گشود
- He opened (the inward) eye (and gazed) on the (ideal) form of that which he had (only) read in books.
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از غبار مرکب آن شاه نر ** یافت او کحل عزیزی در بصر
- From the dust of the mighty King's horse he obtained a precious collyrium for his eyesight.
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برچنین گلزار دامن می‌کشید ** جزو جزوش نعره زن هل من مزید
- In such a garden of flowers he was trailing his skirt, while every part of him was crying, “Is there any more?”
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گلشنی کز بقل روید یک دمست ** گلشنی کز عقل روید خرمست
- The flowers that grow from plants are (living but) a moment; the flowers that grow from Reason are (ever) fresh.
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گلشنی کز گل دمد گردد تباه ** گلشنی کز دل دمد وافر حتاه 4650
- The flowers that bloom from earth become faded; the flowers that bloom from the heart—oh, what a joy!
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علم‌های با مزه‌ی دانسته‌مان ** زان گلستان یک دو سه گل‌دسته دان
- Know that (all) the delightful sciences known to us are (only) two or three bunches of flowers from that Garden.
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زان زبون این دو سه گل دسته‌ایم ** که در گلزار بر خود بسته‌ایم
- We are devoted to these two or three bunches of flowers because we have shut the Garden-door on ourselves.
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آن‌چنان مفتاح‌ها هر دم بنان ** می‌فتد ای جان دریغا از بنان
- Alas, O (dear) soul, (that) on account of (thy greed for) bread such (admirable) keys are always dropping from thy fingers!