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طعمه بنموده به ما و آن بوده شست ** آن چنان بنما به ما آن را که هست
- To us it seems a (tempting) bait and ‘tis (really) a hook: show it to us even as it is.
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گفت آن شیر ای مسیحا این شکار ** بود خالص از برای اعتبار
- The lion said, “O Messiah, (my killing) this prey was merely for the purpose that warning might be taken (by others).
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گر مرا روزی بدی اندر جهان ** خود چه کاراستی مرا با مردگان
- Had there (still) been for me in the world an allotted portion (of food), what business indeed should I have had with the dead?”
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این سزای آن که یابد آب صاف ** همچو خر در جو بمیزد از گزاف 470
- This is the punishment deserved by him that finds pure water, and like an ass stales impertinently in the stream.
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گر بداند قیمت آن جوی خر ** او بجای پا نهد در جوی سر
- If the ass know the value of the stream, instead of his foot he will pull his head in it.
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او بیابد آن چنان پیغمبری ** میر آبی زندگانی پروری
- He (the fool) finds a prophet like that, a lord of the (life-giving) Water, a cherisher of life:
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چون نمیرد پیش او کز امر کن ** ای امیر آب ما را زنده کن
- How does not he die before him, saying, “O lord of the Water, make me living by the command ‘Be’?
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هین سگ نفس ترا زنده مخواه ** کاو عدوی جان تست از دیرگاه
- Take heed! Do not wish your currish (fleshy) soul alive, for it is the enemy of your spirit since long ago.
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خاک بر سر استخوانی را که آن ** مانع این سگ بود از صید جان 475
- Dust be on the head of the bones that hinder this cur from hunting the spirit!
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سگ نهای بر استخوان چون عاشقی ** دیوچهوار از چه بر خون عاشقی
- (If) you are not a cur, how are you in love with bones? Why are you in love with blood, like a leech?