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2610-2619

  • آدمی را با همه وحی و نظر  ** اندر افکند آن لعین در شور و شر  2610
  • That accursed one caused an Adam, notwithstanding all his inspiration and insight, to fall into woe and bane,

  • بی‌گناهی بی‌گزند سابقی  ** که رسد او را ز آدم ناحقی 
  • Without any sin (having been committed against him) and without any previous harm having been wrongfully done to him by Adam.

  • گفت روبه آن طلسم سحر بود  ** که ترا در چشم آن شیری نمود 
  • The fox replied, “It was a spell of magic that appeared in your eyes as a lion;

  • ورنه من از تو به تن مسکین‌ترم  ** که شب و روز اندر آنجا می‌چرم 
  • Else I am more puny in body than you, and I always feed there by night and day.

  • گرنه زان گونه طلسمی ساختی  ** هر شکم‌خواری بدانجا تاختی 
  • If he (the magician) had not wrought a spell of that kind, every famishing (animal) would have run thither.

  • یک جهان بی‌نوا پر پیل و ارج  ** بی‌طلسمی کی بماندی سبز مرج  2615
  • (In) a foodless world full of elephants and rhinoceroses how should the meadow have remained verdant without (the protection of) a spell?

  • من ترا خود خواستم گفتن به درس  ** که چنان هولی اگر بینی مترس 
  • Truly, I meant to tell you, by way of instruction, not to be afraid if you should see a terrible thing like that;

  • لیک رفت از یاد علم آموزیت  ** که بدم مستغرق دلسوزیت 
  • But I forgot to impart (this) knowledge to you, because I was overwhelmed with grief and pity on your account.

  • دیدمت در جوع کلب و بی‌نوا  ** می‌شتابیدم که آیی تا دوا 
  • I saw you were ravenously hungry and without food, (therefore) I was making haste so that you might attain to the remedy;

  • ورنه با تو گفتمی شرح طلسم  ** که آن خیالی می‌نماید نیست جسم 
  • Otherwise I would have explained the spell to you: it (the lion) presents itself as an apparition, it is not a (real) body.”

  • جواب گفتن خر روباه را 
  • The reply of the ass to the fox.