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تو نه آن عودی کز آتش کم شود ** تو نه آن روحی که اسیر غم شود
- Thou art not that aloes-wood that is minished by the fire: thou art not that spirit that is made captive by grief.
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عود سوزد کان عود از سوز دور ** باد کی حمله برد بر اصل نور
- Aloes-wood burns, (but) the mine of aloes-wood is far from burning: how should the wind (of evil words) assail the source of (spiritual) light?
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ای ز تو مر آسمانها را صفا ** ای جفای تو نکوتر از وفا 1875
- Oh, ’tis from thee the heavens have (their) purity; oh, thy unkindness is better than kindness,
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ز انکه از عاقل جفایی گر رود ** از وفای جاهلان آن به بود
- Because if an unkindness come from the wise it is better than the kindness of the ignorant.
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گفت پیغمبر عداوت از خرد ** بهتر از مهری که از جاهل رسد
- The Prophet said, “Enmity (proceeding) from wisdom is better than the love that comes from a fool.”
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رنجانیدن امیری خفتهای را که مار در دهانش رفته بود
- How an Amír harassed a sleeping man into whose mouth a snake had gone.
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عاقلی بر اسب میآمد سوار ** در دهان خفتهای میرفت مار
- A wise man was riding along (at the moment when) a snake was going into the mouth of a man asleep.
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آن سوار آن را بدید و میشتافت ** تا رماند مار را فرصت نیافت
- The rider saw that, and was hurrying to scare away the snake, (but) he got no chance (of doing so).
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چون که از عقلش فراوان بد مدد ** چند دبوسی قوی بر خفته زد 1880
- Since he had an abundant supply of intelligence, he struck the sleeper several powerful blows with a mace.
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برد او را زخم آن دبوس سخت ** زو گریزان تا به زیر یک درخت
- The strokes of the hard mace drove him in flight from him (the rider) to beneath a tree.
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سیب پوسیده بسی بد ریخته ** گفت از این خور ای به درد آویخته
- There were many rotten apples which had dropped (from the tree): he said, “Eat of these, O you in the grip of pain!”