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گر برانی مرغ جانش از گزاف ** هم بگرد بام تو آرد طواف
- If thou unconscionably drive away the bird, his spirit, it will still circle about thy roof.
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چینه و نقلش همه بر بام تست ** پر زنان بر اوج مست دام تست
- All its grain and food is on thy roof: (while) flying in the zenith, it is (still) intoxicated with (love for) thy snare.
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گر دمی منکر شود دزدانه روح ** در ادای شکرت ای فتح و فتوح
- If for one moment the spirit stealthily (secretly) disbelieve in rendering thanks to thee, O (thou who art bestowing) victory and favour (upon it),
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شحنه‌ی عشق مکرر کینه‌اش ** طشت آتش می‌نهد بر سینه‌اش 1995
- Love, the magistrate who exacts vengeance repeatedly, will lay the fiery cauldron (of separation) on its breast,
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که بیا سوی مه و بگذر ز گرد ** شاه عشقت خواند زوتر باز گرد
- Saying, “Come to the Moon and leave the dust behind; Love, the King, calls thee: return with all speed!”
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گرد این بام و کبوترخانه من ** چون کبوتر پر زنم مستانه من
- I am flying ecstatically, like a pigeon, about this roof and pigeon-house.
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جبرئیل عشقم و سدره‌م توی ** من سقیمم عیسی مریم توی
- I am Love's Gabriel, and thou art my Lotus-tree; I am the sick man, and thou art (my) Jesus son of Mary.
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جوش ده آن بحر گوهربار را ** خوش بپرس امروز این بیمار را
- Let that pearl-shedding sea (of thine) break into surge: to-day ask kindly after this ailing one.
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چون تو آن او شدی بحر آن اوست ** گرچه این دم نوبت بحران اوست 2000
- When thou hast become his, the sea (of spiritual mysteries) is his, even though this is the hour of his crisis.
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این خود آن ناله‌ست کو کرد آشکار ** آنچ پنهانست یا رب زینهار
- This (Mathnawí) is only the wailful music that he has uttered; (as for) that which is (kept) hidden (within him), (have) mercy, O Lord!