- The donkey, because of the pain (inflicted on him), will certainly kick: happy the man who abstained from (touching) him!—
- جفته اندازد یقین آن خر ز درد ** حبذا آن کس کزو پرهیز کرد
- Especially (when there are) fifty sores, and a soaked rag stuck on the top of them in every case.
- خاصه پنجه ریش و هر جا خرقهای ** بر سرش چفسیده در نم غرقهای
- House and goods are like the rag, and this greed (of thine) is the sore: the greater the greed, the greater the sore.
- خان و مان چون خرقه و این حرصریش ** حرص هر که بیش باشد ریش بیش
- The wilderness alone is the house and goods of the owl: he (the owl) will not listen to descriptions of Baghdád and Tabas.
- خان و مان چغد ویرانست و بس ** نشنود اوصاف بغداد و طبس
- If a royal falcon come from the road and bring to these owls a hundred reports of the King, 1155
- گر بیاید باز سلطانی ز راه ** صد خبر آرد بدین چغدان ز شاه
- (With) a full account of the imperial city and the orchards and the rivers—then a hundred enemies will jeer at him,
- شرح دارالملک و باغستان و جو ** پس برو افسوس دارد صد عدو
- Saying, ‘What has the falcon brought? An old story. He is weaving words of vanity and idle brag.’
- که چه باز آورد افسانهی کهن ** کز گزاف و لاف میبافد سخن
- (’Tis) they (that) are old and rotten unto everlasting; otherwise (they would know that) that breath (of prophetic inspiration) makes the old new.
- کهنه ایشانند و پوسیدهی ابد ** ورنه آن دم کهنه را نو میکند
- It gives life to the old dead (spirits): it gives the crown of reason and the light of faith.
- مردگان کهنه را جان میدهد ** تاج عقل و نور ایمان میدهد
- Do not steal thy heart away from the spirit-bestowing heart-ravisher, for he will mount thee on the back of Rakhsh. 1160
- دل مدزد از دلربای روحبخش ** که سوارت میکند بر پشت رخش