Illumine my spirit with moonbeams, for my soul is blackened (eclipsed) by contact with the (Dragon's) Tail.
روح را تابان کن از انوار ماه ** که ز آسیب ذنب جان شد سیاه
Deliver it from fancy and vain imagination and opinion, deliver it from the well and the tyranny of the rope,
از خیال و وهم و ظن بازش رهان ** از چه و جور رسن بازش رهان
In order that through Thy goodly lovingkindness a heart (such as mine) may lift its wings and soar up from a (body of) water and earth.
تا ز دلداری خوب تو دلی ** پر بر آرد بر پرد ز آب و گلی
O Prince of Egypt and faithful keeper of thy promise, the wronged Joseph is in thy prison.2790
ای عزیز مصر و در پیمان درست ** یوسف مظلوم در زندان تست
Quickly dream a dream of his release, for God loveth the beneficent.
در خلاص او یکی خوابی ببین ** زود که الله یحب المحسنین
The seven noxious lean kine are devouring its (the spirit's) seven fat kine.
هفت گاو لاغری پر گزند ** هفت گاو فربهش را می‌خورند
The seven dry, ugly, and unapproved ears of corn are feeding on its fresh ears.
هفت خوشه‌ی خشک زشت ناپسند ** سنبلات تازه‌اش را می‌چرند
Famine has arisen in its Egypt, O mighty Potentate: hark, O King, do not continue to sanction this.
قحط از مصرش بر آمد ای عزیز ** هین مباش ای شاه این را مستجیز
Let my Joseph sit in Thy prison, O King: come, deliver me from the wiles of the women.2795
یوسفم در حبس تو ای شه نشان ** هین ز دستان زنانم وا رهان
My mother's lust caused me to fall from the highest heaven which was my tethering-place (stable), for (God said), Fall ye down!
از سوی عرشی که بودم مربط او ** شهوت مادر فکندم که اهبطوا
So by the artfulness of a crone I fell from (a state of) complete perfection into the prison of the womb.
پس فتادم زان کمال مستتم ** از فن زالی به زندان رحم
She brings the spirit from the highest heaven to the (corporeal) Hatím (enclosure): great must be the craft of women.
روح را از عرش آرد در حطیم ** لاجرم کید زنان باشد عظیم
(Both) my first and my last fall were caused by woman, since I was spirit—and how have I become body?
اول و آخر هبوط من ز زن ** چونک بودم روح و چون گشتم بدن
Hearken to this lament of Joseph in his lapse (from grace), or take pity on that distraught Jacob.2800
بشنو این زاری یوسف در عثار ** یا بر آن یعقوب بی‌دل رحم آر
Shall I complain of my brethren or of the women who have cast me, like Adam, from the gardens (of Eden)?
ناله از اخوان کنم یا از زنان ** که فکندندم چو آدم از جنان
I am withered like leaves in December because I have eaten the wheat from the Paradise of union.
زان مثال برگ دی پژمرده‌ام ** کز بهشت وصل گندم خورده‌ام
When I saw Thy graciousness and kindness and Thy greeting of peace and Thy message,
چون بدیدم لطف و اکرام ترا ** وآن سلام سلم و پیغام ترا
I produced rue (to burn as a charm) against the evil eye; (but) the evil eye reached even my rue.
من سپند از چشم بد کردم پدید ** در سپندم نیز چشم بد رسید
(’Tis) only Thy languishing eyes (that) are able to avert every evil eye (whether) in front or behind.2805
دافع هر چشم بد از پیش و پس ** چشم‌های پر خمار تست و بس
Thy good eye, O King, defeats and extirpates the evil eye: how excellent it is as a remedy!
چشم بد را چشم نیکویت شها ** مات و مستاصل کند نعم الدوا
Nay, from Thine eye come (wondrous) alchemies (transmutations): they turn the evil eye into the good eye.
بل ز چشمت کیمیاها می‌رسد ** چشم بد را چشم نیکو می‌کند
The King's eye hath smitten the eye of the falcon-heart, and its falcon-eye hath become mightily aspiring,
چشم شه بر چشم باز دل زدست ** چشم بازش سخت با همت شدست
So that, because of the great aspiration which it has gained from the (King's) look, the royal falcon will (now) catch (hunt) nothing but the fierce lion.
تا ز بس همت که یابید از نظر ** می‌نگیرد باز شه جز شیر نر
What (of the) lion? The spiritual royal falcon is Thy quarry and at the same time Thou art its prey.2810
شیر چه کان شاه‌باز معنوی ** هم شکار تست و هم صیدش توی
The call uttered by the falcon-soul in the meadow of devotion is cries of “I love not them that set.”
شد صفیر باز جان در مرج دین ** نعره‌های لا احب الافلین