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  • امرء القیس از ممالک خشک‌لب  ** هم کشیدش عشق از خطه‌ی عرب 
  • Imra’u ’l-Qays was weary of his empire: Love carried him away from the country of the Arabs,
  • تا بیامد خشت می‌زد در تبوک  ** با ملک گفتند شاهی از ملوک 
  • So that he came and worked as a brick-maker at Tabúk. The king was told that a royal personage,
  • امرء القیس آمدست این‌جا به کد  ** در شکار عشق و خشتی می‌زند 
  • Imra’u ’l-Qays (by name), having fallen a prey to Love, had come thither and was making bricks by (his own) labour.
  • آن ملک برخاست شب شد پیش او  ** گفته او را ای ملیک خوب‌رو 
  • The king rose up and went to him at night and said to him, “O king of beauteous countenance,
  • یوسف وقتی دو ملکت شد کمال  ** مر ترا رام از بلاد و از جمال  3990
  • Thou art the Joseph of the age. Two empires have become entirely subject to thee—(one), of the territories (under thy sway), and (the other), of Beauty.
  • گشته مردان بندگان از تیغ تو  ** وان زنان ملک مه بی‌میغ تو 
  • Men are enslaved by thy sword, while women are the chattels of thy cloudless moon.
  • پیش ما باشی تو بخت ما بود  ** جان ما از وصل تو صد جان شود 
  • (If) thou wilt dwell with me, ’twill be my fortune: by union with thee my soul will be made (equal to) a hundred (enraptured) souls.
  • هم من و هم ملک من مملوک تو  ** ای به همت ملک‌ها متروک تو 
  • Both I (myself) and my kingdom are thine to hold as thine own, O thou who in high aspiration hast abandoned kingdoms!”
  • فلسفه گفتش بسی و او خموش  ** ناگهان وا کرد از سر روی‌پوش 
  • He reasoned with him for a long time, and he (Imra’u ’l-Qays) kept silence, (till) suddenly he unveiled the mystery.
  • تا چه گفتش او به گوش از عشق و درد  ** هم‌چو خود در حال سرگردانش کرد  3995
  • Think what (secrets) of love and passion he (must have) whispered into his ear! Immediately he made him a crazy wanderer like himself.