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ترک گل کرده سوی بحر آمده ** رسته از زندان گل بحری شده 2250
- It has taken leave of earth and has come to the Sea; it has escaped from the prison of earth and has become of the Sea.
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آب ما محبوس گل ماندست هین ** بحر رحمت جذب کن ما را ز طین
- (But) our water has remained imprisoned in earth. Hark, O Sea of Mercy, draw us out of the clay!
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بحر گوید من ترا در خود کشم ** لیک می‌لافی که من آب خوشم
- The Sea says, “I draw thee into myself, but thou art vainly pretending to be the sweet water.
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لاف تو محروم می‌دارد ترا ** ترک آن پنداشت کن در من درآ
- Thy vain pretence is keeping thee deprived of fortune: abandon that (idle) fancy and enter into me.”
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آب گل خواهد که در دریا رود ** گل گرفته پای آب و می‌کشد
- The water in the earth (of the body) desires to go into the Sea, (but) the earth has seized the water's foot and is dragging (it back).
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گر رهاند پای خود از دست گل ** گل بماند خشک و او شد مستقل 2255
- If it release its foot from the hand of the earth, the earth will be left dry, and it (the water) becomes absolutely free.
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آن کشیدن چیست از گل آب را ** جذب تو نقل و شراب ناب را
- What is that drawing back of the water by the earth? (It is) your drawing (towards you) the dessert and unmixed wine (of sensuality).
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همچنین هر شهوتی اندر جهان ** خواه مال و خواه جاه و خواه نان
- Even so every lust in the world, whether it be (for) riches or power or bread—
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هر یکی زینها ترا مستی کند ** چون نیابی آن خمارت می‌زند
- Each of these things produces an intoxication (ardent desire) in you, and when you gain it not, it inflicts a headache upon you.
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این خمار غم دلیل آن شدست ** که بدان مفقود مستی‌ات بدست
- This headache of grief has become a proof that your intoxication was caused by that missed object (of desire).