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144-153

  • He said: “O king, make the house empty; send away both kinsfolk and strangers.
  • گفت ای شه خلوتی کن خانه را ** دور کن هم خویش و هم بیگانه را

  • Let no one listen in the entrance-halls, that I may ask certain things of this handmaiden.” 145
  • کس ندارد گوش در دهلیزها ** تا بپرسم زین کنیزک چیزها

  • The house was left empty, and not one inhabitant (remained): nobody save the physician and that sick girl.
  • خانه خالی ماند و یک دیار نی ** جز طبیب و جز همان بیمار نی‌‌

  • Very gently he said (to her), “Where is thy native town? for the treatment suitable to the people of each town is separate.
  • نرم نرمک گفت شهر تو کجاست ** که علاج اهل هر شهری جداست‌‌

  • And in that town who is related to thee? With what hast thou kinship and affinity?”
  • و اندر آن شهر از قرابت کیستت ** خویشی و پیوستگی با چیستت‌‌

  • He laid his hand on her pulse and put questions, one by one, about the injustice of Heaven.
  • دست بر نبضش نهاد و یک به یک ** باز می‌‌پرسید از جور فلک‌‌

  • When a thorn darts into any one's foot, he sets his foot upon his knee, 150
  • چون کسی را خار در پایش جهد ** پای خود را بر سر زانو نهد

  • And keeps searching for its head with the point of a needle, and if he does not find it, he keeps moistening it (the place) with his lip.
  • وز سر سوزن همی‌‌جوید سرش ** ور نیابد می‌‌کند با لب ترش‌‌

  • A thorn in the foot is so hard to find: how (then) is it with a thorn in the heart? Answer (that)!
  • خار در پا شد چنین دشوار یاب ** خار در دل چون بود واده جواب‌‌

  • If every base fellow had seen the thorn in the heart, when would sorrows gain the upper hand over any one?
  • خار در دل گر بدیدی هر خسی ** دست کی بودی غمان را بر کسی‌‌