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که مضاعف زو همی‌شد آن عطا ** کم همی‌افتاد بخشش را خطا
- For those gifts were always multiplied (increased in amount) by him: there was no fault to be found with the donations (then);
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این زمان او رفت و احسان را ببرد ** او نمرد الحق بلی احسان بمرد 1230
- (But) now, he is gone and has taken beneficence away (with him): he is not dead, (but) beneficence is dead (in this world), yea, verily.
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رفت از ما صاحب راد و رشید ** صاحب سلاخ درویشان رسید
- The generous and upright minister is gone from us; the minister who is a flayer of the poor has arrived.
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رو بگیر این را و زینجا شب گریز ** تا نگیرد با تو این صاحب‌ستیز
- Go, take this (money) and flee from here by night, lest this minister pick a quarrel with thee.
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ما به صد حیلت ازو این هدیه را ** بستدیم ای بی‌خبر از جهد ما
- We have obtained this gift from him by a hundred devices, O thou who art ignorant of our exertions.”
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رو بایشان کرد و گفت ای مشفقان ** از کجا آمد بگویید این عوان
- He turned his face to them and said, “O kindly men, tell (me), whence came this myrmidon (ruffian)?
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چیست نام این وزیر جامه‌کن ** قوم گفتندش که نامش هم حسن 1235
- What is the name of this vizier who tears off the clothes (of the poor)?” The company (of courtiers) said to him, “His name too is Hasan.”
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گفت یا رب نام آن و نام این ** چون یکی آمد دریغ ای رب دین
- He (the poet) cried, “O Lord, how are the names of that one and this one the same? Alas, O Lord of the Judgement!
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آن حسن نامی که از یک کلک او ** صد وزیر و صاحب آید جودخو
- That Hasan by name (was such) that by a single pen of his a hundred viziers and ministers are disposed to liberality.
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این حسن کز ریش زشت این حسن ** می‌توان بافید ای جان صد رسن
- This Hasan (is such) that from the ugly beard of this Hasan thou canst weave, O (dear) soul, a hundred ropes.”