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1859-1868

  • ز انکه غالب عقل بود و خر ضعیف ** از سوار زفت گردد خر نحیف‏
  • Because (in Jesus) intellect was ruling, and the ass (was) weak —the ass is made lean by a strong rider—
  • و ز ضعیفی عقل تو ای خر بها ** این خر پژمرده گشته ست اژدها 1860
  • While from the weakness of your intellect, O you who have (no more than) the value of an ass, this worn-out ass has become a dragon.
  • گر ز عیسی گشته‏ای رنجور دل ** هم از او صحت رسد او را مهل‏
  • If through Jesus (the spiritual guide) you have become heart-sick, (yet) health too comes from him: do not leave him.
  • چونی ای عیسای عیسی دم ز رنج ** که نبود اندر جهان بی‏مار گنج‏
  • How art thou as to affliction, O thou Jesus who hast the (healing) breath of Jesus? For there never was in the world a treasure without a snake.
  • چونی ای عیسی ز دیدار جهود ** چونی ای یوسف ز مکار حسود
  • How art thou, O Jesus, at the sight of the Jews? How art thou, O Joseph, in respect of the envious plotter?
  • تو شب و روز از پی این قوم غمر ** چون شب و روزی مدد بخشای عمر
  • Night and day for the sake of this foolish people thou, like night and day, art a replenisher of life.
  • چونی از صفراییان بی‏هنر ** چه هنر زاید ز صفرا درد سر 1865
  • How art thou in regard to those bilious ones who are without excellence? What excellence is born from bile? Headache.
  • تو همان کن که کند خورشید شرق ** ما نفاق و حیله و دزدی و زرق‏
  • Do thou the same thing as the sun of the east does: we are hypocrisy and craft and thieving and dissimulation.
  • تو عسل ما سرکه در دنیا و دین ** دفع این صفرا بود سرکنگبین‏
  • Thou art honey, we are vinegar in (the affairs of) this world and in religion; the (means of) removing this bile is oxymel.
  • سرکه افزودیم ما قوم زحیر ** تو عسل بفزا کرم را وامگیر
  • We folk who suffer from colic have added more and more vinegar; do thou add more and more honey, withhold not thy bounty.