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  • بار دیگر گرد گورستان بگشت ** همچو آن شیر شکاری گرد دشت‌‌
  • Once again he wandered about the graveyard, like the hunting lion about the desert.

  • چون یقین گشتش که غیر پیر نیست ** گفت در ظلمت دل روشن بسی است‌‌
  • When it became certain to him that none was there except the old man, he said, “Many an illumined heart is (to be found) in darkness.”

  • آمد او با صد ادب آن جا نشست ** بر عمر عطسه فتاد و پیر جست‌‌ 2175
  • He came and sat down there (beside him) with a hundred marks of respect. ‘Umar happened to sneeze, and the old man sprang to his feet.

  • مر عمر را دید و ماند اندر شگفت ** عزم رفتن کرد و لرزیدن گرفت‌‌
  • He saw ‘Umar and stood fixed in amazement: he resolved to go and began to tremble (with fear).

  • گفت در باطن خدایا از تو داد ** محتسب بر پیرکی چنگی فتاد
  • He said within himself, “O God, help, I beseech thee! The Inspector has fallen upon a poor old harper.”

  • چون نظر اندر رخ آن پیر کرد ** دید او را شرمسار و روی زرد
  • When ‘Umar looked on the old man's countenance, he saw him ashamed and pale.

  • پس عمر گفتش مترس از من مرم ** کت بشارتها ز حق آورده‌‌ام‌‌
  • Then ‘Umar said to him, “Fear not, do not flee from me, for I have brought thee glad tidings from God.

  • چند یزدان مدحت خوی تو کرد ** تا عمر را عاشق روی تو کرد 2180
  • How often has God praised thy disposition, so that He has made ‘Umar in love with thy face!

  • پیش من بنشین و مهجوری مساز ** تا به گوشت گویم از اقبال راز
  • Sit down beside me and do not make separation (between us), that I may say into thine ear the secret (message) from (the Divine) favour.

  • حق سلامت می‌‌کند می‌‌پرسدت ** چونی از رنج و غمان بی‌‌حدت‌‌
  • God sends thee greeting and asks thee how thou farest in thy distress and boundless sorrows.

  • نک قراضه‌‌ی چند ابریشم بها ** خرج کن این را و باز اینجا بیا
  • Lo, here are some pieces of gold to pay for silk. Spend them and come back to this place.”

  • پیر لرزان گشت چون این را شنید ** دست می‌‌خایید و بر خود می‌‌تپید
  • The old man trembled when he heard this, biting his hand and quivering all over,

  • بانگ می‌‌زد کای خدای بی‌‌نظیر ** بس که از شرم آب شد بی‌‌چاره پیر 2185
  • Crying, “O God who hast no like!” inasmuch as the poor old man was melted with shame.

  • چون بسی بگریست و از حد رفت درد ** چنگ را زد بر زمین و خرد کرد
  • After he had wept long and his grief had gone beyond (all) bounds, he dashed his harp on the earth and broke it to bits.

  • گفت ای بوده حجابم از اله ** ای مرا تو راه زن از شاه راه‌‌
  • He said, “O thou (harp) that hast been to me a curtain (debarring me) from God, O thou (that hast been) to me a brigand (cutting me off) from the King's highway,

  • ای بخورده خون من هفتاد سال ** ای ز تو رویم سیه پیش کمال‌‌
  • O thou that hast drunk my blood for seventy years, O thou because of whom my face is black (disgraced) before (the Divine) perfection!

  • ای خدای با عطای با وفا ** رحم کن بر عمر رفته در جفا
  • Have mercy, O bounteous God who keepest faith, on a life passed in iniquity!

  • داد حق عمری که هر روزی از آن ** کس نداند قیمت آن در جهان‌‌ 2190
  • God gave (me) a life, the value of every single day whereof none in the world can know.

  • خرج کردم عمر خود را دم‌‌به‌‌دم ** در دمیدم جمله را در زیر و بم‌‌
  • I have spent my life, breath by breath: I have breathed it all away in treble and bass.

  • آه کز یاد ره و پرده‌‌ی عراق ** رفت از یادم دم تلخ فراق‌‌
  • Ah me, that in minding the (musical) mode and rhythm of ‘Iráq the bitter moment of parting (from this world) went out of my mind (was forgotten).

  • وای کز تری زیر افکند خرد ** خشک شد کشت دل من دل بمرد
  • Alas that from the liquid freshness of the minor zírafgand the seed sown in my heart dried up, and my heart died.

  • وای کز آواز این بیست و چهار ** کاروان بگذشت و بی‌‌گه شد نهار
  • Alas that from (my preoccupation with) the sound of these four-and-twenty (melodies) the caravan passed and the day grew late.”

  • ای خدا فریاد زین فریادخواه ** داد خواهم نه ز کس زین داد خواه‌‌ 2195
  • O God, help (me) against this (self of mine) that is seeking help (from Thee): I seek justice (redress) from no one (else, but only) from this justice-seeking (self).

  • داد خود از کس نیابم جز مگر ** ز آن که او از من به من نزدیکتر
  • I shall not get justice for myself from any one except, surely, from Him who is nearer to me than I;

  • کاین منی از وی رسد دم دم مرا ** پس و را بینم چو این شد کم مرا
  • For this “I-hood” comes to me from Him moment by moment: therefore when this has failed me, I see (only) Him,