چونک بجهد در فتد اندر میان ** در میان هر دو کوه بی امان
As soon as he leaps, he falls midway between the two pitiless mountains.
او ز صیادان به که بگریخته ** خود پناهش خون او را ریخته815
He had fled to the mountain (to escape) from the hunters: his very refuge shed his blood.
شسته صیادان میان آن دو کوه ** انتظار این قضای با شکوه
The hunters are seated between the two mountains in expectation of this awesome decree (of God).
باشد اغلب صید این بز همچنین ** ورنه چالاکست و چست و خصم‌بین
The capture of this (mountain-)goat is, for the most part, (accomplished) in this manner; else (it would be difficult, for) he is agile and nimble and quick to see the enemy.
رستم ارچه با سر و سبلت بود ** دام پاگیرش یقین شهوت بود
Though Rustam have (a huge) head and moustache, lust will certainly be the snare to catch his feet.
همچو من از مستی شهوت ببر ** مستی شهوت ببین اندر شتر
Be cut off, like me, from the intoxication of lust: look at the intoxication of lust in the camel!
باز این مستی شهوت در جهان ** پیش مستی ملک دان مستهان820
Know, again, that this intoxication of lust in the (terrestrial) world is (to be) deemed of small account beside the intoxication of the angels.
مستی آن مستی این بشکند ** او به شهوت التفاتی کی کند
The intoxication of that one (the angel) breaks (reduces to insignificance) the intoxication of this one (the human being): how should he (the angel) show any propensity to lust?
آب شیرین تا نخوردی آب شور ** خوش بود خوش چون درون دیده نور
Until you have drunk sweet water, briny water is sweet, sweet as the light in the eye;
قطره‌ای از باده‌های آسمان ** بر کند جان را ز می وز ساقیان
(But) a single drop of the wines of Heaven causes the soul to be rapt away from the wine and cupbearers (of this world)—