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1030-1054

  • تا به بغداد آمد آن هنگامه‌جو ** تا نهد هنگامه‌ای بر چارسو 1030
  • Till (at last) the would-be showman arrived at Baghdád, that he might set up a public show at the cross-roads.

  • بر لب شط مرد هنگامه نهاد ** غلغله در شهر بغداد اوفتاد
  • The man set up a show on the bank of the Tigris, and a hubbub arose in the city of Baghdád—

  • مارگیری اژدها آورده است ** بوالعجب نادر شکاری کرده است
  • “A snake-catcher has brought a dragon: he has captured a marvellous rare beast.”

  • جمع آمد صد هزاران خام‌ریش ** صید او گشته چو او از ابلهیش
  • Myriads of simpletons assembled, who had become a prey to him as he (to it) in his folly.

  • منتظر ایشان و هم او منتظر ** تا که جمع آیند خلق منتشر
  • They were waiting (to see the dragon), and he too was waiting for the scattered people to assemble.

  • مردم هنگامه افزون‌تر شود ** کدیه و توزیع نیکوتر رود 1035
  • The greater the crowd, the better goes the begging and contributing (of money).

  • جمع آمد صد هزاران ژاژخا ** حلقه کرده پشت پا بر پشت پا
  • Myriads of idle babblers assembled, forming a ring, sole against sole.

  • مرد را از زن خبر نه ز ازدحام ** رفته درهم چون قیامت خاص و عام
  • Man took no heed of woman: on account of the throng they were mingled together like nobles and common folk at the Resurrection.

  • چون همی حراقه جنبانید او ** می‌کشیدند اهل هنگامه گلو
  • When he (the snake-catcher) began to move the cloth (which covered the dragon), the people in the crowd strained their throats (necks),

  • و اژدها کز زمهریر افسرده بود ** زیر صد گونه پلاس و پرده بود
  • And (saw that) the dragon, which had been frozen by intense cold, was underneath a hundred kinds of coarse woollen cloths and coverlets.

  • بسته بودش با رسنهای غلیظ ** احتیاطی کرده بودش آن حفیظ 1040
  • He had bound it with thick ropes: that careful keeper had taken great precaution for it.

  • در درنگ انتظار و اتفاق ** تافت بر آن مار خورشید عراق
  • During the delay (interval) of expectation and coming together, the sun of ‘Iráq shone upon the snake.

  • آفتاب گرم‌سیرش گرم کرد ** رفت از اعضای او اخلاط سرد
  • The sun of the hot country warmed it; the cold humours went out of its limbs.

  • مرده بود و زنده گشت او از شگفت ** اژدها بر خویش جنبیدن گرفت
  • It had been dead, and it revived: from astonishment (at feeling the sun's heat) the dragon began to uncoil itself.

  • خلق را از جنبش آن مرده مار ** گشتشان آن یک تحیر صد هزار
  • By the stirring of that dead serpent the people's amazement was multiplied a hundred thousand fold.

  • با تحیر نعره‌ها انگیختند ** جملگان از جنبشش بگریختند 1045
  • With amazement they started shrieking and fled en masse from its motion.

  • می‌سکست او بند و زان بانگ بلند ** هر طرف می‌رفت چاقاچاق بند
  • It set about bursting the bonds, and at that loud outcry (of the people) the bonds on every side went crack, crack.

  • بندها بسکست و بیرون شد ز زیر ** اژدهایی زشت غران همچو شیر
  • It burst the bonds and glided out from beneath—a hideous dragon roaring like a lion.

  • در هزیمت بس خلایق کشته شد ** از فتاده و کشتگان صد پشته شد
  • Many people were killed in the rout: a hundred heaps were made of the fallen slain.

  • مارگیر از ترس بر جا خشک گشت ** که چه آوردم من از کهسار و دشت
  • The snake-catcher became paralysed with fear on the spot, crying, “What have I brought from the mountains and the desert?”

  • گرگ را بیدار کرد آن کور میش ** رفت نادان سوی عزرائیل خویش 1050
  • The blind sheep awakened the wolf: unwittingly it went towards its ‘Azrá’íl (Angel of death).

  • اژدها یک لقمه کرد آن گیج را ** سهل باشد خون‌خوری حجاج را
  • The dragon made one mouthful of that dolt: blood-drinking (bloodshed) is easy for Hajjáj.

  • خویش را بر استنی پیچید و بست ** استخوان خورده را در هم شکست
  • It wound and fastened itself on a pillar and crunched the bones of the devoured man.

  • نفست اژدرهاست او کی مرده است ** از غم و بی آلتی افسرده است
  • The dragon is thy sensual soul: how is it dead? It is (only) frozen by grief and lack of means.

  • گر بیابد آلت فرعون او ** که بامر او همی‌رفت آب جو
  • If it obtain the means of Pharaoh, by whose command the water of the river (Nile) would flow,