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کاش کان هم ننگ بودی یک سری ** تا نرفتی بر وی آن بد داوری
- Would that he too had been disgrace (deformity) altogether, so that that evil judgement might not have come to pass upon him!
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خون دوید از چشم همچون جوی او ** دشمن جان وی آمد روی او
- Blood ran from his eye (that flowed with tears) like a river; his (handsome) face became the enemy of his life.
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دشمن طاوس آمد پر او ** ای بسی شه را بکشته فر او
- The peacock's plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence!
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گفت من آن آهوم کز ناف من ** ریخت این صیاد خون صاف من
- He said, “I am the muskdeer on account of whose gland this hunter shed my pure (innocent) blood.
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ای من آن روباه صحرا کز کمین ** سر بریدندش برای پوستین 210
- Oh, I am the fox of the field whose head they (the hunters springing forth) from the covert cut off for the sake of the fur.
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ای من آن پیلی که زخم پیل بان ** ریخت خونم از برای استخوان
- Oh, I am the elephant whose blood was shed by the blow of the mahout for the sake of the bone (ivory).
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آن که کشتستم پی مادون من ** می‌‌نداند که نخسبد خون من
- He who hath slain me for that which is other than I, does not he know that my blood sleepeth not (will not rest unavenged)?
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بر من است امروز و فردا بر وی است ** خون چون من کس چنین ضایع کی است
- To-day it lies on me and to-morrow it lies on him: when does the blood of one such as I am go to waste like this?
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گر چه دیوار افکند سایه‌‌ی دراز ** باز گردد سوی او آن سایه باز
- Although the wall casts a long shadow, (yet at last) the shadow turns back again towards it.
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این جهان کوه است و فعل ما ندا ** سوی ما آید نداها را صدا 215
- This world is the mountain, and our action the shout: the echo of the shouts comes (back) to us.”