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  • منبلی نی کو بود خود برگ‌جو ** منبلی‌ام لاابالی مرگ‌جو
  • (I am) not the vagabond who in sooth is a seeker of provender: I am the reckless vagabond (who is) the seeker of death.

  • منبلی نی کو به کف پول آورد ** منبلی چستی کزین پل بگذرد
  • (I am) not the vagabond who gets small money into his palm, (but) the nimble vagabond who would cross this bridge (to the world hereafter)—

  • آن نه کو بر هر دکانی بر زند ** بل جهد از کون و کانی بر زند 3950
  • Not the one who cleaves to every shop; nay, but (the one who) springs away from (phenomenal) existence and strikes upon a mine (of reality).

  • مرگ شیرین گشت و نقلم زین سرا ** چون قفص هشتن پریدن مرغ را
  • Death and migration from this (earthly) abode has become as sweet to me as leaving the cage and flying (is sweet) to the (captive) bird—

  • آن قفص که هست عین باغ در ** مرغ می‌بیند گلستان و شجر
  • The cage that is in the very midst of the garden, (so that) the bird beholds the rose-beds and the trees,

  • جوق مرغان از برون گرد قفص ** خوش همی‌خوانند ز آزادی قصص
  • (While) outside, round the cage, a multitude of birds is sweetly chanting tales of liberty:

  • مرغ را اندر قفص زان سبزه‌زار ** نه خورش ماندست و نه صبر و قرار
  • At (the sight of) that verdant place neither (desire for) food remains to the bird in the cage, nor patience and rest,

  • سر ز هر سوراخ بیرون می‌کند ** تا بود کین بند از پا برکند 3955
  • (But) it puts out its head through every hole, that perchance it may tear off this fetter from its leg.

  • چون دل و جانش چنین بیرون بود ** آن قفص را در گشایی چون بود
  • Since its heart and soul are (already) outside like this, how will it be when you open the cage?”

  • نه چنان مرغ قفص در اندهان ** گرد بر گردش به حلقه گربگان
  • Not such is the bird caged amidst anxieties—cats round about it in a ring:

  • کی بود او را درین خوف و حزن ** آرزوی از قفص بیرون شدن
  • How, in this dread and sorrow, should it have the desire to go out of the cage?

  • او همی‌خواهد کزین ناخوش حصص ** صد قفص باشد بگرد این قفص
  • It wishes that, (to save it) from this unwelcome plucking (of its feathers), there might be a hundred cages round about this cage (in which it is confined).

  • عشق جالینوس برین حیات دنیا بود کی هنر او همینجا بکار می‌آید هنری نورزیده است کی در آن بازار بکار آید آنجا خود را به عوام یکسان می‌بیند
  • The love of (a) Galen is for this present life, for only here does his art avail; he has not practised any art that avails in yonder market: there he sees himself to be the same as the vulgar.

  • آنچنانک گفت جالینوس راد ** از هوای این جهان و از مراد 3960
  • That is even as wise Galen said on account of (his) passion for this world and because of what he desired (in it)—

  • راضیم کز من بماند نیم جان ** که ز کون استری بینم جهان
  • “I am content that (only) half of my vital spirit should remain, so that I may see the world through the arse of a mule.”

  • گربه می‌بیند بگرد خود قطار ** مرغش آیس گشته بودست از مطار
  • He sees around him cats in troops: his bird has despaired of flying;

  • یا عدم دیدست غیر این جهان ** در عدم نادیده او حشری نهان
  • Or he has deemed all except this world to be non-existence and has not perceived in non-existence a hidden resurrection.

  • چون جنین کش می‌کشد بیرون کرم ** می‌گریزد او سپس سوی شکم
  • Like the embryo which (the Divine) Bounty is drawing forth: it is fleeing back towards the belly.

  • لطف رویش سوی مصدر می‌کند ** او مقر در پشت مادر می‌کند 3965
  • (The Divine) Grace is turning its (the embryo's) face towards the place of exit, (while) it (the embryo) is making its abode in the mother's loins,

  • که اگر بیرون فتم زین شهر و کام ** ای عجب بینم بدیده این مقام
  • Saying, “Oh, I wonder, if I fall outside of this city and (abode of) pleasure, shall I see with my eye this dwelling-place;

  • یا دری بودی در آن شهر وخم ** که نظاره کردمی اندر رحم
  • Or would there be in that noisome city a door, so that I might gaze into the womb,

  • یا چو چشمه‌ی سوزنی راهم بدی ** که ز بیرونم رحم دیده شدی
  • Or would there be for me a path, (narrow) as the eye of a needle, so that the womb might become visible to me from outside?”

  • آن جنین هم غافلست از عالمی ** همچو جالینوس او نامحرمی
  • That embryo, too, is unaware of a world (outside): it is one unfamiliar (therewith), like Galen.

  • اونداند کن رطوباتی که هست ** آن مدد از عالم بیرونیست 3970
  • It does not know that the humours which exist (in the womb) are supplied (to it) from the external world,

  • آنچنانک چار عنصر در جهان ** صد مدد آرد ز شهر لامکان
  • Even as the four elements in this world obtain a hundred supplies (means of support) from the City beyond space.

  • آب و دانه در قفص گر یافتست ** آن ز باغ و عرصه‌ای درتافتست
  • If it has found water and seeds in its cage, those have appeared (there) from a Garden and Expanse.