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آن فسون خوشتر از حلوای او ** آنک صد حلواست خاک پای او 2520
- That spell of his, (which is) sweeter than halwá, that (spell) of whose feet a hundred halwá’s are (only) the dust.
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خنبهای خسروانی پر ز می ** مایه برده از می لبهای وی
- The imperial jars full of the wine (of mystical knowledge) have drawn their stock from the wine of his lips.
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عاشق می باشد آن جان بعید ** کو می لبهای لعلش را ندید
- (Only) that alien soul which has never seen the wine of his ruby lips is a lover of the wine (of conventional knowledge).
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آب شیرین چون نبیند مرغ کور ** چون نگردد گرد چشمه‌ی آب شور
- Since the blind bird does not see the sweet water, how should not it circle round the brackish water?
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موسی جان سینه را سینا کند ** طوطیان کور را بینا کند
- The spiritual Moses makes the breast a Sinai: he makes the blind parrots able to see.
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خسرو شیرین جان نوبت زدست ** لاجرم در شهر قند ارزان شدست 2525
- The Khusraw (who is the lover) of the spiritual Shírín has beaten the drum (of sovereignty); consequently sugar has become cheap in the city.
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یوسفان غیب لشکر می‌کشند ** تنگهای قند و شکر می‌کشند
- The Josephs of the unseen world are marching: they are bringing bales of candy and sugar.
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اشتران مصر را رو سوی ما ** بشنوید ای طوطیان بانگ درا
- The faces of the camels of Egypt are (turned) towards us: hearken, O parrots, to the sound of the (camel-)bell.
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شهر ما فردا پر از شکر شود ** شکر ارزانست ارزان‌تر شود
- To-morrow our city will be filled with sugar; sugar is cheap (to-day): (tomorrow) it will be cheaper.
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در شکر غلطید ای حلواییان ** هم‌چو طوطی کوری صفراییان
- O confectioners, wallow in sugar, like the parrot, in despite of the bilious ones.