- Thou art not a single “thou,” O good comrade; nay, thou art the sky and the deep sea.
- تو یکی تو نیستی ای خوش رفیق ** بلک گردونی ودریای عمیق
- Thy mighty “Thou,” which is nine hundredfold, is the ocean and the drowning-place of a hundred “thou's.”
- آن تو زفتت که آن نهصدتوست ** قلزمست وغرقه گاه صد توست
- Indeed, what occasion (is there) for the terms wakefulness and sleep? Do not speak, for God knoweth best what is right.
- خود چه جای حد بیداریست و خواب ** دم مزن والله اعلم بالصواب
- Do not speak, so that thou mayst hear from the Speakers that which came not into utterance or into explanation. 1305
- دم مزن تا بشنوی از دم ز نان ** آنچ نامد در زبان و در بیان
- Do not speak, so that thou mayst hear from the Sun that which came not into book or into allocution.
- دم مزن تا بشنوی زان آفتاب ** آنچ نامد درکتاب و در خطاب
- Do not speak, so that the Spirit may speak for thee: in the ark of Noah leave off swimming!
- دم مزن تا دم زند بهر تو روح ** آشنا بگذار در کشتی نوح
- (Be not) like Canaan, who was swimming and saying, “I do not want the ark of Noah, (who is) my enemy.”
- همچو کنعان کشنا می‌کرد او ** که نخواهم کشتی نوح عدو
- (Noah said), “Hey, come and sit in thy father's ark, that thou mayst not be drowned in the Flood, O despicable one!”
- هی بیا در کشتی بابا نشین ** تا نگردی غرق طوفان ای مهین
- He answered, “Nay, I have learned to swim: I have lighted a candle other than thy candle.” 1310
- گفت نه من آشنا آموختم ** من بجز شمع تو شمع افروختم
- (Noah said), “Beware! Do it not, for these waves are the Flood of tribulation; to-day hand and foot and swimming are naught.
- هین مکن کین موج طوفان بلاست ** دست و پا و آشنا امروز لاست