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  • (But) holy is He who giveth (mere) earth a (specious) colour and causes us to quarrel over it like children.
  • پاک آنک خاک را رنگی دهد  ** هم‌چو کودکمان بر آن جنگی دهد 
  • (The world is) a skirtful of earth, and we are like little children: in our sight the earth is as gold of the mine.
  • دامنی پر خاک ما چون طفلکان  ** در نظرمان خاک هم‌چون زر کان 
  • There is no room for a child beside (grown-up) men: how should God let a child sit with men? 4735
  • طفل را با بالغان نبود مجال  ** طفل را حق کی نشاند با رجال 
  • If fruit become old, (yet) so long as it is immature and not ripe it is called ghúra (unripe grapes).
  • میوه گر کهنه شود تا هست خام  ** پخته نبود غوره گویندش به نام 
  • Though (one resembling) immature and sour (fruit) reach the age of a hundred years, he is (still) a child and unripe (ghúra) in the opinion of every sagacious person.
  • گر شود صدساله آن خام ترش  ** طفل و غوره‌ست او بر هر تیزهش 
  • Though his hair and beard be white, he is still in the childish state of fear and hope,
  • گرچه باشد مو و ریش او سپید  ** هم در آن طفلی خوفست و امید 
  • Saying, “Shall I attain (to maturity), or am I (to be) left immature? Oh, I wonder, will the Vine bestow that bounty on me?
  • که رسم یا نارسیده مانده‌ام  ** ای عجب با من کند کرم آن کرم 
  • Notwithstanding such an incapacity and remoteness (from God), will He confer on these unripe grapes (ghúra) of mine a perfection like that of the ripe grape (angúr)? 4740
  • با چنین ناقابلی و دوریی  ** بخشد این غوره‌ی مرا انگوریی 
  • I have no hopes from any quarter, but that (Divine) Bounty is saying to me, ‘Do not ye despair!’”
  • نیستم اومیدوار از هیچ سو  ** وان کرم می‌گویدم لا تیاسوا 
  • Our Kháqán (Emperor) has made a perpetual feast (for us): He is always pulling our ears (drawing us thither and saying), “Do not lose hope!”
  • دایما خاقان ما کردست طو  ** گوشمان را می‌کشد لا تقنطوا