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  • گفت بس جدند و گرم اندر گرفت  ** گر خرم گیرند هم نبود شگفت 
  • He answered, “They are very urgent and furious in taking (them): ’twill be no wonder if they take me too for an ass.
  • بهر خرگیری بر آوردند دست  ** جدجد تمییز هم برخاستست 
  • They have put their hands with all their might to (the job of) taking asses: accordingly discrimination has ceased.”
  • چونک بی‌تمییزیان‌مان سرورند  ** صاحب خر را به جای خر برند  2545
  • Since undiscriminating persons are our rulers, they carry off the owner of the ass instead of the ass.
  • نیست شاه شهر ما بیهوده گیر  ** هست تمییزش سمیعست و بصیر 
  • (But) the King of our city is not one who takes at random: He has discrimination, He is hearing and seeing.
  • آدمی باش و ز خرگیران مترس  ** خر نه‌ای ای عیسی دوران مترس 
  • Be a man and do not be afraid of those who take the asses: thou art not an ass: be not afraid, O Jesus of the (world of) Time.
  • چرخ چارم هم ز نور تو پرست  ** حاش لله که مقامت آخرست 
  • The Fourth Heaven, moreover, is filled with thy light: God forbid (that I should say) that the Stable is thy abode.
  • تو ز چرخ و اختران هم برتری  ** گرچه بهر مصلحت در آخری 
  • Thou art higher even than the sky and the stars, though for a good reason thou art (temporarily) in the Stable.
  • میر آخر دیگر و خر دیگرست  ** نه هر آنک اندر آخر شد خرست  2550
  • The Master of the Stable is one thing and the ass another: not every one who has entered the Stable is an ass.
  • چه در افتادیم در دنبال خر  ** از گلستان گوی و از گلهای تر 
  • Why have we fallen in behind the ass? Tell of the Rose-garden and the fresh roses,
  • از انار و از ترنج و شاخ سیب  ** وز شراب و شاهدان بی‌حساب 
  • And of the pomegranate and the citron and the apple-bough, and of the wine and the fair youths innumerable,