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پس ز جنس خویش آموز سخن ** بی‌خبر از مکر آن گرگ کهن
- Therefore it learns (human) speech from one of its own kind, being unaware of the cunning of that old wolf.
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از پس آیینه می‌آموزدش ** ورنه ناموزد جز از جنس خودش
- He is teaching it behind the mirror; otherwise (it would not talk, for) it does not learn except from its congeners.
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گفت را آموخت زان مرد هنر ** لیک از معنی و سرش بی‌خبر 1435
- It (really) learned to talk from that accomplished man, but it is ignorant of his meaning and mystery.
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از بشر بگرفت منطق یک به یک ** از بشر جز این چه داند طوطیک
- It received speech, word by word, from Man; (but) what should the little parrot know of Man except this?
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هم‌چنان در آینه‌ی جسم ولی ** خویش را بیند مردی ممتلی
- Similarly, the disciple full (of egoism) sees himself in the mirror of the Shaykh's body.
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از پس آیینه عقل کل را ** کی ببیند وقت گفت و ماجرا
- How should he see Universal Reason behind the mirror at the time of speech and discourse?
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او گمان دارد که می‌گوید بشر ** وان گر سرست و او زان بی‌خبر
- He supposes that a man is speaking; and the other (Universal Reason) is a mystery of which he is ignorant.
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حرف آموزد ولی سر قدیم ** او نداند طوطی است او نی ندیم 1440
- He learns the words, but the eternal mystery he cannot know, for he is a parrot, not a boon-companion.
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هم صفیر مرغ آموزند خلق ** کین سخن کار دهان افتاد و حلق
- Likewise, people learn the note of birds, for this speech (of birds) is an affair of the mouth and throat;
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لیک از معنی مرغان بی‌خبر ** جز سلیمان قرانی خوش‌نظر
- But (all are) ignorant of the birds' meaning, except an august Solomon of goodly insight.