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1140-1149

  • خویشتن مکشید ای جغدان که من ** نه مقیمم می‏روم سوی وطن‏ 1140
  • Do not kill yourselves (with agitation), O owls, for I am not settling (here): I am going home.
  • این خراب آباد در چشم شماست ** ور نه ما را ساعد شه باز جاست‏
  • This ruin is a thriving abode in your eyes; for me, however, the King's fore-arm is the place of delight.”
  • جغد گفتا باز حیلت می‏کند ** تا ز خان و مان شما را بر کند
  • The owl (that was warning the others) said, “The falcon is plotting to uproot you from house and home.
  • خانه‏های ما بگیرد او به مکر ** بر کند ما را به سالوسی ز وکر
  • He will seize our houses by cunning, he will tear us out of our nests by (his) hypocrisy.
  • می‏نماید سیری این حیلت پرست ** و الله از جمله‏ی حریصان بدتر است‏
  • This devotee of guile pretends to be perfectly satisfied (with what he has); by God, he is worse than all the greedy together.
  • او خورد از حرص طین را همچو دبس ** دنبه مسپارید ای یاران به خرس‏ 1145
  • From greediness he eats clay as (if it were) date-syrup: O friends, do not entrust the sheep's tail to the bear.
  • لاف از شه می‏زند وز دست شاه ** تا برد او ما سلیمان را ز راه‏
  • He is boasting of the King and the King's hand, in order that he may lead us astray, simple-minded as we are.
  • خود چه جنس شاه باشد مرغکی ** مشنوش گر عقل داری اندکی‏
  • How, indeed, should a petty bird be the congener of the King? Do not listen to him, if you have (even) a little understanding.
  • جنس شاه است او و یا جنس وزیر ** هیچ باشد لایق لوزینه سیر
  • Is he the King's or the Vizier's congener? Is garlic at all suitable to sweetmeat made with walnut kernels?
  • آن چه می‏گوید ز مکر و فعل و فن ** هست سلطان با حشم جویای من‏
  • (As for) his saying, from deceit and feint and artifice, ‘The King with his retinue is searching after me,’