- What did she (the parrot) do there (in India), that thou didst learn, devise a trick, and burn us (with grief)”?
- او چه کرد آن جا که تو آموختی ** ساختی مکری و ما را سوختی
- The parrot said, “She by her act counselled me—‘Abandon thy charm of voice and thy affection (for thy master), 1830
- گفت طوطی کاو به فعلم پند داد ** که رها کن لطف آواز و وداد
- Because thy voice has brought thee into bondage’: she feigned herself dead for the sake of (giving me) this counsel,
- ز آن که آوازت ترا در بند کرد ** خویشتن مرده پی این پند کرد
- Meaning (to say), ‘O thou who hast become a singer to high and low, become dead like me, that thou mayst gain release.’”
- یعنی ای مطرب شده با عام و خاص ** مرده شو چون من که تا یابی خلاص
- If you are a grain, the little birds will peck you up; if you are a bud, the children will pluck you off.
- دانه باشی مرغکانت بر چنند ** غنچه باشی کودکانت بر کنند
- Hide the grain (bait), become wholly a snare; hide the bud, become the grass on the roof.
- دانه پنهان کن بکلی دام شو ** غنچه پنهان کن گیاه بام شو
- Any one who offers his beauty to auction, a hundred evil fates set out towards him (and overtake him). 1835
- هر که داد او حسن خود را در مزاد ** صد قضای بد سوی او رو نهاد
- (Evil) eyes and angers and envies pour upon his head, like water from waterskins.
- چشمها و خشمها و رشکها ** بر سرش ریزد چو آب از مشکها
- Foes tear him to pieces from jealousy; even friends take his lifetime away.
- دشمنان او را ز غیرت میدرند ** دوستان هم روزگارش میبرند
- He that was heedless of the sowing and the springtide, how should he know the value of this lifetime?
- آن که غافل بود از کشت بهار ** او چه داند قیمت این روزگار