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  • پس بیامد زود روبه سوی خر  ** گفت خر از چون تو یاری الحذر  2600
  • Then the fox came quickly towards the ass: the ass said, “One must beware of a friend like you.

  • ناجوامردا چه کردم من ترا  ** که به پیش اژدها بردی مرا 
  • Ignoble creature, what did I do to you that you brought me into the presence of a dragon?

  • موجب کین تو با جانم چه بود  ** غیر خبث جوهر تو ای عنود 
  • What but the malignity of your nature was the cause of your enmity to my life, O perverse one?”—

  • هم‌چو کزدم کو گزد پای فتی  ** نارسیده از وی او را زحمتی 
  • Like the scorpion, which bites a man's foot though no inconvenience has come to it from him,

  • یا چو دیوی کو عدوی جان ماست  ** نارسیده زحمتش از ما و کاست 
  • Or like the Devil who is the enemy of our souls, though no inconvenience or injury has befallen him from us;

  • بلک طبعا خصم جان آدمیست  ** از هلاک آدمی در خرمیست  2605
  • Nay, but he is naturally the adversary of the human soul and rejoices at the destruction of Man;

  • از پی هر آدمی او نسکلد  ** خو و طبع زشت خود او کی هلد 
  • He never breaks off his pursuit of any human being: how should he abandon his wicked disposition and nature?

  • زانک خبث ذات او بی‌موجبی  ** هست سوی ظلم و عدوان جاذبی 
  • For, without any cause, his essential malignity pulls him on to (commit) injustice and tyranny.

  • هر زمان خواند ترا تا خرگهی  ** که در اندازد ترا اندر چهی 
  • He continually invites thee to a spacious tent in order that he may cast thee into a pit,

  • که فلان جا حوض آبست و عیون  ** تا در اندازد به حوضت سرنگون 
  • Saying, “In such and such a place there is a tank of water and (many) fountains,” that he may cast thee headlong into the tank.

  • آدمی را با همه وحی و نظر  ** اندر افکند آن لعین در شور و شر  2610
  • That accursed one caused an Adam, notwithstanding all his inspiration and insight, to fall into woe and bane,

  • بی‌گناهی بی‌گزند سابقی  ** که رسد او را ز آدم ناحقی 
  • Without any sin (having been committed against him) and without any previous harm having been wrongfully done to him by Adam.

  • گفت روبه آن طلسم سحر بود  ** که ترا در چشم آن شیری نمود 
  • The fox replied, “It was a spell of magic that appeared in your eyes as a lion;

  • ورنه من از تو به تن مسکین‌ترم  ** که شب و روز اندر آنجا می‌چرم 
  • Else I am more puny in body than you, and I always feed there by night and day.

  • گرنه زان گونه طلسمی ساختی  ** هر شکم‌خواری بدانجا تاختی 
  • If he (the magician) had not wrought a spell of that kind, every famishing (animal) would have run thither.

  • یک جهان بی‌نوا پر پیل و ارج  ** بی‌طلسمی کی بماندی سبز مرج  2615
  • (In) a foodless world full of elephants and rhinoceroses how should the meadow have remained verdant without (the protection of) a spell?

  • من ترا خود خواستم گفتن به درس  ** که چنان هولی اگر بینی مترس 
  • Truly, I meant to tell you, by way of instruction, not to be afraid if you should see a terrible thing like that;

  • لیک رفت از یاد علم آموزیت  ** که بدم مستغرق دلسوزیت 
  • But I forgot to impart (this) knowledge to you, because I was overwhelmed with grief and pity on your account.

  • دیدمت در جوع کلب و بی‌نوا  ** می‌شتابیدم که آیی تا دوا 
  • I saw you were ravenously hungry and without food, (therefore) I was making haste so that you might attain to the remedy;

  • ورنه با تو گفتمی شرح طلسم  ** که آن خیالی می‌نماید نیست جسم 
  • Otherwise I would have explained the spell to you: it (the lion) presents itself as an apparition, it is not a (real) body.”

  • جواب گفتن خر روباه را 
  • The reply of the ass to the fox.

  • گفت رو رو هین ز پیشم ای عدو  ** تا نبینم روی تو ای زشت‌رو  2620
  • “Hark,” cried the ass, “begone, begone from my presence, O enemy, that I may not see your face, O ugly one!

  • آن خدایی که ترا بدبخت کرد  ** روی زشتت را کریه و سخت کرد 
  • That God who made you ill-fated hath made your ugly face detestable and impudent.

  • با کدامین روی می‌آیی به من  ** این چنین سغری ندارد کرگدن 
  • With what face do you come to me? The rhinoceros has not such a hard skin (as you have).

  • رفته‌ای در خون جانم آشکار  ** که ترا من ره‌برم تا مرغزار 
  • You manifestly attempted to shed my life-blood, saying, ‘I will guide you to the meadow,’

  • تا بدیدم روی عزرائیل را  ** باز آوردی فن و تسویل را 
  • So that I beheld the face of Azrael; (now) again you have brought cunning and plausible suggestion (to bear on me).