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  • The king sent thither one or two messengers, clever men and competent and very just. 185
  • شه فرستاد آن طرف یک دو رسول ** حاذقان و کافیان بس عدول‌‌

  • Those two Amírs came to Samarcand and went to the goldsmith, bearing the good news from the king.
  • تا سمرقند آمدند آن دو امیر ** پیش آن زرگر ز شاهنشه بشیر

  • Saying, “O fine master, perfect in knowledge, thou whose quality (of perfection in thy craft) is famous in (all) the lands,
  • کای لطیف استاد کامل معرفت ** فاش اندر شهرها از تو صفت‌‌

  • Lo, such-and-such a king hath chosen thee for (thy skill in) the goldsmith's craft, because thou art eminent.
  • نک فلان شه از برای زرگری ** اختیارت کرد زیرا مهتری‌‌

  • Look now, receive this robe of honour and gold and silver; when thou comest (to the king), thou wilt be a favourite and boon-companion.”
  • اینک این خلعت بگیر و زر و سیم ** چون بیایی خاص باشی و ندیم‌‌

  • The man saw the much wealth and the many robes: he was beguiled, he parted from his town and children. 190
  • مرد مال و خلعت بسیار دید ** غره شد از شهر و فرزندان برید

  • Blithely the man came into the road, unaware that the king had formed a design against his life.
  • اندر آمد شادمان در راه مرد ** بی‌‌خبر کان شاه قصد جانش کرد

  • He mounted an Arab horse and sped on joyously: (what really was) the price of his blood he deemed a robe of honour.
  • اسب تازی بر نشست و شاد تاخت ** خونبهای خویش را خلعت شناخت‌‌

  • O (fool), who with a hundred consents thyself with thine own foot didst enter on the journey to the fated ill!
  • ای شده اندر سفر با صد رضا ** خود به پای خویش تا سوء القضا

  • In his fancy (were dreams of) riches, power, and lordship. Said ‘Azrá‘íl (the Angel of Death), “Go (thy way). Yes, thou wilt get (them)!”
  • در خیالش ملک و عز و مهتری ** گفت عزرائیل رو آری بری‌‌

  • When the stranger arrived (and turned) from the road, the physician brought him into the presence of the king. 195
  • چون رسید از راه آن مرد غریب ** اندر آوردش به پیش شه طبیب‌‌

  • Proudly and delicately they conducted him to the king of kings, that he might burn (like a moth) on that candle of Tiráz.
  • سوی شاهنشاه بردندش به ناز ** تا بسوزد بر سر شمع طراز

  • The king beheld him, showed great regard (for him), and entrusted to him the treasure house (full) of gold.
  • شاه دید او را بسی تعظیم کرد ** مخزن زر را بدو تسلیم کرد

  • Then the physician said to him: “O mighty Sultan, give the handmaiden to this lord,
  • پس حکیمش گفت کای سلطان مه ** آن کنیزک را بدین خواجه بده‌‌

  • In order that the handmaiden may be happy in union with him, and that the water of union with him may put out the fire (of passion).”
  • تا کنیزک در وصالش خوش شود ** آب وصلش دفع آن آتش شود

  • The king bestowed on him that moon-faced one and wedded those twain (who were) craving (each other's) company. 200
  • شه بدو بخشید آن مه روی را ** جفت کرد آن هر دو صحبت جوی را

  • During the space of six months they were satisfying their desire, till the girl was wholly restored to health.
  • مدت شش ماه می‌‌راندند کام ** تا به صحت آمد آن دختر تمام‌‌

  • Thereafter he prepared for him a potion, so that when he drank it he began to dwindle away before her.
  • بعد از آن از بهر او شربت بساخت ** تا بخورد و پیش دختر می‌‌گداخت‌‌

  • When because of sickness his beauty remained not, the soul of the girl remained not in his pestilence (deadly toils).
  • چون ز رنجوری جمال او نماند ** جان دختر در وبال او نماند

  • Since he became ugly and ill-favoured and sallow-cheeked, little by little he became cold (irksome and unpleasing) in her heart.
  • چون که زشت و ناخوش و رخ زرد شد ** اندک اندک در دل او سرد شد

  • Those loves which are for the sake of a colour (outward beauty) are not love: in the end they are a disgrace. 205
  • عشقهایی کز پی رنگی بود ** عشق نبود عاقبت ننگی بود

  • Would that he too had been disgrace (deformity) altogether, so that that evil judgement might not have come to pass upon him!
  • کاش کان هم ننگ بودی یک سری ** تا نرفتی بر وی آن بد داوری‌‌

  • Blood ran from his eye (that flowed with tears) like a river; his (handsome) face became the enemy of his life.
  • خون دوید از چشم همچون جوی او ** دشمن جان وی آمد روی او

  • The peacock's plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence!
  • دشمن طاوس آمد پر او ** ای بسی شه را بکشته فر او

  • He said, “I am the muskdeer on account of whose gland this hunter shed my pure (innocent) blood.
  • گفت من آن آهوم کز ناف من ** ریخت این صیاد خون صاف من‌‌