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1105-1114

  • ژغژغ دندان او دل می‌شکست ** جان شیران سیه می‌شد ز دست 1105
  • The gnashing of its teeth would break the heart; the souls of black lions would be distraught (with terror).
  • چون به قوم خود رسید آن مجتبی ** شدق او بگرفت باز او شد عصا
  • When that chosen one (Moses) reached his kinsfolk, he took hold of the corner of its mouth, and it became again a staff.
  • تکیه بر وی کرد و می‌گفت ای عجب ** پیش ما خورشید و پیش خصم شب
  • He leaned upon it, saying, “O wonder! to me (’tis clear as) the sun, to my enemy (’tis dark as) night.
  • ای عجب چون می‌نبیند این سپاه ** عالمی پر آفتاب چاشتگاه
  • O wonder! How doth this host not see a whole world filled with the morning sun?
  • چشم باز و گوش باز و این ذکا ** خیره‌ام در چشم‌بندی خدا
  • Eyes open, and ears open, and this sun! I am amazed at God's eye-bandaging.
  • من ازیشان خیره ایشان هم ز من ** از بهاری خار ایشان من سمن 1110
  • I am amazed at them, and they too at me: (we are) from one springtime, (but) they are thorns and I am jasmine.
  • پیششان بردم بسی جام رحیق ** سنگ شد آبش به پیش این فریق
  • I bore to them many a cup of pure wine: its juice turned to stone before this company.
  • دسته گل بستم و بردم به پیش ** هر گلی چون خار گشت و نوش نیش
  • I twined a handful of roses and carried it to them: every rose became as a thorn, and the honey turned to poison.
  • آن نصیب جان بی‌خویشان بود ** چونک با خویش‌اند پیدا کی شود
  • That (pure wine) is the portion allotted to the selfless: since they are with themselves (not freed from self), how should it be shown (to them)?
  • خفته‌ی بیدار باید پیش ما ** تا به بیداری ببیند خوابها
  • With us, one must needs be a waking sleeper, that in the state of wakefulness he may dream dreams.”