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1811-1820

  • Wine in ferment is a beggar suing for our ferment; Heaven in revolution is a beggar suing for our consciousness.
  • باده در جوشش گدای جوش ماست ** چرخ در گردش گدای هوش ماست‌‌

  • Wine became intoxicated with us, not we with it; the body came into being from us, not we from it.
  • باده از ما مست شد نی ما از او ** قالب از ما هست شد نی ما از او

  • We are as bees, and bodies are as wax (honeycomb): we have made the body, cell by cell, like wax.
  • ما چو زنبوریم و قالبها چو موم ** خانه خانه کرده قالب را چو موم‌‌

  • Reverting to the tale of the merchant who went to trade (in India).
  • رجوع به حکایت خواجه‌‌ی تاجر

  • This (discourse) is very long. Tell the story of the merchant, that we may see what happened to that good man.
  • بس دراز است این حدیث خواجه گو ** تا چه شد احوال آن مرد نکو

  • The merchant in fire (burning grief) and anguish and yearning was uttering a hundred distracted phrases like this, 1815
  • خواجه اندر آتش و درد و حنین ** صد پراکنده همی‌‌گفت این چنین‌‌

  • Now self-contradiction, now disdain, now supplication, now passion for reality, now metaphor (unreality).
  • گه تناقض گاه ناز و گه نیاز ** گاه سودای حقیقت گه مجاز

  • The drowning man suffers an agony of soul and clutches at every straw.
  • مرد غرقه گشته جانی می‌‌کند ** دست را در هر گیاهی می‌‌زند

  • For fear of (losing) his head (life), he flings about (both) hand and foot to see whether any one will take his hand (help him) in peril.
  • تا کدامش دست گیرد در خطر ** دست و پایی می‌‌زند از بیم سر

  • The Friend loves this agitation: it is better to struggle vainly than to lie still.
  • دوست دارد یار این آشفتگی ** کوشش بی‌‌هوده به از خفتگی‌‌

  • He who is the King (of all) is not idle, (though) complaint from Him would be a marvel, for He is not ill. 1820
  • آن که او شاه است او بی‌‌کار نیست ** ناله از وی طرفه کاو بیمار نیست‌‌