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نه تو گویی هم بگوش خویشتن ** نه من ونه غیرمن ای هم تو من
- Nay, thou wilt tell it even to thine own ear—neither I nor another than I (will tell it thee), O thou that art even I—
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همچو آن وقتی که خواب اندر روی ** تو ز پیش خود به پیش خود شوی 1300
- Just as, when thou fallest asleep, thou goest from the presence of thyself into the presence of thyself:
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بشنوی از خویش و پنداری فلان ** با تو اندر خواب گفتست آن نهان
- Thou hearest from thyself, and deemest that such or such a one has secretly told thee in the dream that (which thou hast heard).
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تو یکی تو نیستی ای خوش رفیق ** بلک گردونی ودریای عمیق
- Thou art not a single “thou,” O good comrade; nay, thou art the sky and the deep sea.
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آن تو زفتت که آن نهصدتوست ** قلزمست وغرقه گاه صد توست
- Thy mighty “Thou,” which is nine hundredfold, is the ocean and the drowning-place of a hundred “thou's.”
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خود چه جای حد بیداریست و خواب ** دم مزن والله اعلم بالصواب
- Indeed, what occasion (is there) for the terms wakefulness and sleep? Do not speak, for God knoweth best what is right.
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دم مزن تا بشنوی از دم ز نان ** آنچ نامد در زبان و در بیان 1305
- Do not speak, so that thou mayst hear from the Speakers that which came not into utterance or into explanation.
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دم مزن تا بشنوی زان آفتاب ** آنچ نامد درکتاب و در خطاب
- Do not speak, so that thou mayst hear from the Sun that which came not into book or into allocution.
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دم مزن تا دم زند بهر تو روح ** آشنا بگذار در کشتی نوح
- Do not speak, so that the Spirit may speak for thee: in the ark of Noah leave off swimming!
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همچو کنعان کشنا می‌کرد او ** که نخواهم کشتی نوح عدو
- (Be not) like Canaan, who was swimming and saying, “I do not want the ark of Noah, (who is) my enemy.”