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2538-2547

  • A certain man took refuge in a house: his face was yellow, his lips blue, and his colour had ebbed away.
  • آن یکی در خانه‌ای در می‌گریخت  ** زرد رو و لب کبود و رنگ ریخت 
  • The master of the house said to him, “Is it well (with you)? for your hand is trembling like (that of) an old man.
  • صاحب خانه بگفتش خیر هست  ** که همی لرزد ترا چون پیر دست 
  • What has happened? Why have you taken refuge (here)? How have you lost the colour of your face so (entirely)?” 2540
  • واقعه چونست چون بگریختی  ** رنگ رخساره چنین چون ریختی 
  • “To-day,” said he, “they are seizing asses outside (in the streets) to do forced labour for the tyrannical king.”
  • گفت بهر سخره‌ی شاه حرون  ** خر همی‌گیرند امروز از برون 
  • He (the householder) replied, “O beloved of your uncle, they are taking it because it is an ass: since you are not an ass, go (your way): why are you troubled at this?”
  • گفت می‌گیرند کو خر جان عم  ** چون نه‌ای خر رو ترا زین چیست غم 
  • He answered, “They are very urgent and furious in taking (them): ’twill be no wonder if they take me too for an ass.
  • گفت بس جدند و گرم اندر گرفت  ** گر خرم گیرند هم نبود شگفت 
  • They have put their hands with all their might to (the job of) taking asses: accordingly discrimination has ceased.”
  • بهر خرگیری بر آوردند دست  ** جدجد تمییز هم برخاستست 
  • Since undiscriminating persons are our rulers, they carry off the owner of the ass instead of the ass. 2545
  • چونک بی‌تمییزیان‌مان سرورند  ** صاحب خر را به جای خر برند 
  • (But) the King of our city is not one who takes at random: He has discrimination, He is hearing and seeing.
  • نیست شاه شهر ما بیهوده گیر  ** هست تمییزش سمیعست و بصیر 
  • Be a man and do not be afraid of those who take the asses: thou art not an ass: be not afraid, O Jesus of the (world of) Time.
  • آدمی باش و ز خرگیران مترس  ** خر نه‌ای ای عیسی دوران مترس