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1939-1963

  • اندر آن رقعه نبشته بود این  ** که برون شهر گنجی دان دفین 
  • This is what was written in the scroll—“Know that outside of the town a treasure is buried.

  • آن فلان قبه که در وی مشهدست  ** پشت او در شهر و در در فدفدست  1940
  • (Go to) such-and-such a domed building in which there is a martyr's shrine, with its back to the town and its gate towards the desert.

  • پشت با وی کن تو رو در قبله آر  ** وانگهان از قوس تیری بر گذار 
  • Turn your back to it and face the qibla (Mecca) and then let loose an arrow from your bow.

  • چون فکندی تیر از قوس ای سعاد  ** بر کن آن موضع که تیرت اوفتاد 
  • When you have shot the arrow from your bow, O fortunate one, dig up the place where your arrow fell.”

  • پس کمان سخت آورد آن فتی  ** تیر پرانید در صحن فضا 
  • Thereupon the youth fetched a strongbow and let fly an arrow into the expanse of (aerial) space,

  • زو تبر آورد و بیل او شاد شاد  ** کند آن موضع که تیرش اوفتاد 
  • And quickly and with great joy brought a pick-axe and mattock and dug up the spot where his arrow had fallen;

  • کند شد هم او و هم بیل و تبر  ** خود ندید از گنج پنهانی اثر  1945
  • (But) both he and the mattock and pick-axe were worn out (in vain efforts), and he found not even a trace of the hidden treasure.

  • هم‌چنین هر روز تیر انداختی  ** لیک جای گنج را نشناختی 
  • Every day in like fashion he was shooting arrows, but never getting to know the situation of the treasure.

  • چونک این را پیشه کرد او بر دوام  ** فجفجی در شهر افتاد و عوام 
  • Since he made this his continual practice, a whispered rumour arose in the city and (among) the people.

  • فاش شدن خبر این گنج و رسیدن به گوش پادشاه 
  • How the news of this treasure became known and reached the ears of the king.

  • پس خبر کردند سلطان را ازین  ** آن گروهی که بدند اندر کمین 
  • Then the party (of informers) who lay in ambush gave information of this to the king,

  • عرضه کردند آن سخن را زیردست  ** که فلانی گنج‌نامه یافتست 
  • And submitted the matter (to him) secretly, saying that such-and-such an one had found a treasure-scroll.

  • چون شنید این شخص کین با شه رسید  ** جز که تسلیم و رضا چاره ندید  1950
  • When this person (the fakir) heard that it had come to (the knowledge of) the king, he saw no remedy but resignation and acquiescence;

  • پیش از آنک اشکنجه بیند زان قباد  ** رقعه را آن شخص پیش او نهاد 
  • (So), ere he should suffer (torture on) the rack by order of the Emperor, that person laid the note (of the treasure) before him,

  • گفت تا این رقعه را یابیده‌ام  ** گنج نه و رنج بی‌حد دیده‌ام 
  • Saying, “(Ever) since I found this scroll, I have seen no treasure but (only) infinite trouble.

  • خود نشد یک حبه از گنج آشکار  ** لیک پیچیدم بسی من هم‌چو مار 
  • Not even a single mite of treasure has been discovered, but I have writhed very much, like a snake.

  • مدت ماهی چنینم تلخ‌کام  ** که زیان و سود این بر من حرام 
  • During a (whole) month I have been in bitter distress like this, for loss or gain (accruing) from this (treasure-scroll) is forbidden to me.

  • بوک بختت بر کند زین کان غطا  ** ای شه پیروزجنگ و دزگشا  1955
  • Maybe thy fortune will disclose (to thee) this mine (of riches), O king (who art) victorious in war and the conqueror of fortresses.”

  • مدت شش ماه و افزون پادشاه  ** تیر می‌انداخت و برمی‌کند چاه 
  • For six long months and more the king shot arrows and dug pits (where the arrows fell).

  • هرکجا سخته کمانی بود چست  ** تیر داد انداخت و هر سو گنج جست 
  • Wherever an energetic drawer of the strongbow was (to be found), he (the king) gave (him) arrows to shoot and searched for the treasure in every direction.

  • غیر تشویش و غم و طامات نی  ** هم‌چو عنقا نام فاش و ذات نی 
  • (The result was) nothing but vexation and grief and futilities: as (in the case of) the ‘Anqá, the name (of the treasure) was known to all, but the essence (reality) was non-existent.

  • نومید شدن آن پادشاه از یافتن آن گنج و ملول شدن او از طلب آن 
  • How the king despaired of finding the treasure and became weary of searching for it.

  • چونک تعویق آمد اندر عرض و طول  ** شاه شد زان گنج دل سیر و ملول 
  • When he met with obstacles (to success) in (all) the breadth and length (of his enterprise), the king became sick at heart and weary.

  • دشتها را گز گز آن شه چاه کند  ** رقعه را از خشم پیش او فکند  1960
  • (After) the king (had) dug pits in the deserts, yard by yard, he threw the scroll wrathfully before him (the fakir).

  • گفت گیر این رقعه کش آثار نیست  ** تو بدین اولیتری کت کار نیست 
  • “Take this scroll,” said he, “which has no (good) effects; you are the fittest (owner) for it, since you have no work.

  • نیست این کار کسی کش هست کار  ** که بسوزد گل بگردد گرد خار 
  • It is no use for one who has work (to do) that he should burn the rose and go about (busy himself with) the thorn.

  • نادر افتد اهل این ماخولیا  ** منتظر که روید از آهن گیا 
  • ’Tis singular (how) the victims of this melancholy madness expect grass to grow from iron.