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6
132-141

  • گفت اگر رویش به شهر و دم به ده  ** روی او از دم او می‌دان که به 
  • He replied, “If its face is to the town and its tail to the country, know that its face is better than its tail;

  • ور سوی شهرست دم رویش به ده  ** خاک آن دم باش و از رویش بجه 
  • But if its tail is towards the town and its face to the country, be the dust on that tail and spring away from its face.”

  • مرغ با پر می‌پرد تا آشیان  ** پر مردم همتست ای مردمان 
  • A bird flies to its nest by means of wings: the wings of Man are aspiration, O people.

  • عاشقی که آلوده شد در خیر و شر  ** خیر و شر منگر تو در همت نگر  135
  • (In the case of) the lover who is soiled with good and evil, do not regard the good and evil; (only) regard the aspiration.

  • باز اگر باشد سپید و بی‌نظیر  ** چونک صیدش موش باشد شد حقیر 
  • If a falcon be white and beyond compare, (yet) it becomes despicable when it hunts a mouse;

  • ور بود چغدی و میل او به شاه  ** او سر بازست منگر در کلاه 
  • And if there be an owl that has desire for the king, it is (noble as) the falcon's head: do not regard the hood.

  • آدمی بر قد یک طشت خمیر  ** بر فزود از آسمان و از اثیر 
  • Man, no bigger than a kneading-trough (scooped in a log), has surpassed (in glory) the heavens and the aether (the empyrean).

  • هیچ کرمنا شنید این آسمان  ** که شنید این آدمی پر غمان 
  • Did this heaven ever hear (the words) We have honoured which this sorrowful Man heard (from God)?

  • بر زمین و چرخ عرضه کرد کس  ** خوبی و عقل و عبارات و هوس  140
  • Did any one offer to earth and sky (his) beauty and reason and eloquence and fond affection?

  • جلوه کردی هیچ تو بر آسمان  ** خوبی روی و اصابت در گمان 
  • Didst thou ever display to heaven thy beauty of countenance and thy sureness of judgement in (matters of) opinion?