- Verily, I do not find a single ear to which I should tell a mystery concerning that beauteous eye.
- خود نمی‌یابم یکی گوشی که من ** نکته‌ای گویم از آن چشم حسن
- (If) the lauded and august water were to trickle (from that eye), Gabriel would (eagerly) carry off its drops, 2645
- می‌چکید آن آب محمود جلیل ** می‌ربودی قطره‌اش را جبرئیل
- That he might rub them on his wings and beak, if that person of goodly practice give him permission.
- تا بمالد در پر و منقال خویش ** گر دهد دستوریش آن خوب کیش
- The falcon says, “If the anger of the old crone has blazed forth, (yet) it has not consumed my glory and splendour and self-denial and knowledge.
- باز گوید خشم کمپیر ار فروخت ** فر و نور و علم و صبرم را نسوخت
- The falcon, (which is) my spirit, will still weave a hundred forms: the blow falls on the she-camel, not on Sálih.
- باز جانم باز صد صورت تند ** زخم بر ناقه نه بر صالح زند
- At a single awful breath that Sálih heaves, the back (womb) of the mountain will bring to birth a hundred such she-camels.”
- صالح از یک‌دم که آرد با شکوه ** صد چنان ناقه بزاید متن کوه
- (My) heart is saying, “Be silent and observe discretion; otherwise, the (Divine) jealousy will end the warp and woof (of thy existence).” 2650
- دل همی گوید خموش و هوش دار ** ورنه درانید غیرت پود و تار
- His jealousy hath a hundred hidden clemencies; else in one moment it would consume a hundred worlds.
- غیرتش را هست صد حلم نهان ** ورنه سوزیدی به یک دم صد جهان
- Kingly pride seized the place of (left no room for) admonition in him (Pharaoh), so that he wrenched his heart away from the bonds of admonition,
- نخوت شاهی گرفتش جای پند ** تا دل خود را ز بند پند کند
- Saying, “I will take counsel with Hámán, for he is the support of the kingdom and the pivot of power.”
- که کنم بار رای هامان مشورت ** کوست پشت ملک و قطب مقدرت