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  • آن یکی در خانه‌ای در می‌گریخت  ** زرد رو و لب کبود و رنگ ریخت 
  • A certain man took refuge in a house: his face was yellow, his lips blue, and his colour had ebbed away.

  • صاحب خانه بگفتش خیر هست  ** که همی لرزد ترا چون پیر دست 
  • The master of the house said to him, “Is it well (with you)? for your hand is trembling like (that of) an old man.

  • واقعه چونست چون بگریختی  ** رنگ رخساره چنین چون ریختی  2540
  • What has happened? Why have you taken refuge (here)? How have you lost the colour of your face so (entirely)?”

  • گفت بهر سخره‌ی شاه حرون  ** خر همی‌گیرند امروز از برون 
  • “To-day,” said he, “they are seizing asses outside (in the streets) to do forced labour for the tyrannical king.”

  • گفت می‌گیرند کو خر جان عم  ** چون نه‌ای خر رو ترا زین چیست غم 
  • He (the householder) replied, “O beloved of your uncle, they are taking it because it is an ass: since you are not an ass, go (your way): why are you troubled at this?”

  • گفت بس جدند و گرم اندر گرفت  ** گر خرم گیرند هم نبود شگفت 
  • He answered, “They are very urgent and furious in taking (them): ’twill be no wonder if they take me too for an ass.

  • بهر خرگیری بر آوردند دست  ** جدجد تمییز هم برخاستست 
  • They have put their hands with all their might to (the job of) taking asses: accordingly discrimination has ceased.”

  • چونک بی‌تمییزیان‌مان سرورند  ** صاحب خر را به جای خر برند  2545
  • Since undiscriminating persons are our rulers, they carry off the owner of the ass instead of the ass.

  • نیست شاه شهر ما بیهوده گیر  ** هست تمییزش سمیعست و بصیر 
  • (But) the King of our city is not one who takes at random: He has discrimination, He is hearing and seeing.

  • آدمی باش و ز خرگیران مترس  ** خر نه‌ای ای عیسی دوران مترس 
  • Be a man and do not be afraid of those who take the asses: thou art not an ass: be not afraid, O Jesus of the (world of) Time.

  • چرخ چارم هم ز نور تو پرست  ** حاش لله که مقامت آخرست 
  • The Fourth Heaven, moreover, is filled with thy light: God forbid (that I should say) that the Stable is thy abode.

  • تو ز چرخ و اختران هم برتری  ** گرچه بهر مصلحت در آخری 
  • Thou art higher even than the sky and the stars, though for a good reason thou art (temporarily) in the Stable.

  • میر آخر دیگر و خر دیگرست  ** نه هر آنک اندر آخر شد خرست  2550
  • The Master of the Stable is one thing and the ass another: not every one who has entered the Stable is an ass.

  • چه در افتادیم در دنبال خر  ** از گلستان گوی و از گلهای تر 
  • Why have we fallen in behind the ass? Tell of the Rose-garden and the fresh roses,

  • از انار و از ترنج و شاخ سیب  ** وز شراب و شاهدان بی‌حساب 
  • And of the pomegranate and the citron and the apple-bough, and of the wine and the fair youths innumerable,

  • یا از آن دریا که موجش گوهرست  ** گوهرش گوینده و بیناورست 
  • Or of the Sea whose waves are pearls and whose pearls are speaking and seeing,

  • یا از آن مرغان که گل‌چین می‌کنند  ** بیضه‌ها زرین و سیمین می‌کنند 
  • Or of the Birds which pick roses and lay eggs of silver and gold,

  • یا از آن بازان که کبکان پرورند  ** هم نگون اشکم هم استان می‌پرند  2555
  • Or of the Falcons which foster the partridges and fly both with their bellies turned downward and also on their backs.

  • نردبانهاییست پنهان در جهان  ** پایه پایه تا عنان آسمان 
  • In the world there are invisible ladders, (leading) step by step up to the summit of heaven.

  • هر گره را نردبانی دیگرست  ** هر روش را آسمانی دیگرست 
  • There is a different ladder for every class, there is a different heaven for every (traveller's) way.

  • هر یکی از حال دیگر بی‌خبر  ** ملک با پهنا و بی‌پایان و سر 
  • Every one is ignorant of another's condition (in) the kingdom (which is) wide and without end or beginning.

  • این در آن حیران که او از چیست خوش  ** وآن درین خیره که حیرت چیستش 
  • This one is amazed at that one and asks wherefore he is happy, while that one is astounded at this one and asks why he is amazed.

  • صحن ارض الله واسع آمده  ** هر درختی از زمینی سر زده  2560
  • The area of God's earth is spacious: every tree springs up from a certain soil.

  • بر درختان شکر گویان برگ و شاخ  ** که زهی ملک و زهی عرصه‌ی فراخ 
  • The leaves and boughs on the trees are giving thanks (to God), crying, “Oh, what a fine kingdom! Oh, what a broad expanse!”

  • بلبلان گرد شکوفه‌ی پر گره  ** که از آنچ می‌خوری ما را بده 
  • The nightingales are (flying) round the knobby blossom, saying, “Give us some of that which thou drinkest.”