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1861-1885

  • شاه فرمود ای عجب آن بنده را  ** چیست خود پنهان و پوشیده ز ما 
  • The King said, “Oh, I wonder what in sooth that servant (of mine) has that is hidden and concealed from me.”
  • پس اشارت کرد میری را که رو  ** نیم‌شب بگشای و اندر حجره شو 
  • Then he gave orders to a certain Amír, saying, “Go at midnight and open (the door) and enter the room.
  • هر چه یابی مر ترا یغماش کن  ** سر او را بر ندیمان فاش کن 
  • Whatever you find is yours: plunder him, expose his secret to the courtiers.
  • با چنین اکرام و لطف بی‌عدد  ** از لیمی سیم و زر پنهان کند 
  • Notwithstanding such innumerable kindnesses and favours (as I have bestowed upon him), does he meanly hide silver and gold (from me)?
  • می‌نماید او وفا و عشق و جوش  ** وانگه او گندم‌نمای جوفروش  1865
  • He professes loyalty and love and enthusiasm—and then (after all) he is one who shows wheat and sells barley!
  • هر که اندر عشق یابد زندگی  ** کفر باشد پیش او جز بندگی 
  • To any one who finds life in love, aught but (devoted) service would seem infidelity.”
  • نیم‌شب آن میر با سی معتمد  ** در گشاد حجره‌ی او رای زد 
  • At midnight the Amír with thirty trusted (officers) set out to open his chamber,
  • مشعله بر کرده چندین پهلوان  ** جانب حجره روانه شادمان 
  • And all these valiant men, carrying torches, moved joyfully in that direction,
  • که امر سلطانست بر حجره زنیم  ** هر یکی همیان زر در کش کنیم 
  • Saying, “’Tis the Sultan's command: let us raid the room and each of us pocket a purse of gold.”
  • آن یکی می‌گفت هی چه جای زر  ** از عقیق و لعل گوی و از گهر  1870
  • “Hey!” cried one of them, “why trouble about gold?” Talk (rather) of cornelians and rubies and (all sorts of) jewels.
  • خاص خاص مخزن سلطان ویست  ** بلک اکنون شاه را خود جان ویست 
  • He is the most privileged (keeper) of the Sultan's treasury: nay, he is now (as dear) to the King (as) life itself.”
  • چه محل دارد به پیش این عشیق  ** لعل و یاقوت و زمرد یا عقیق 
  • What worth should rubies and corundums and emeralds or cornelians possess in the eyes of this man (so) beloved (of the King)?
  • شاه را بر وی نبودی بد گمان  ** تسخری می‌کرد بهر امتحان 
  • The King had no evil thoughts of him: he was (only) making a mock (of the courtiers) by way of trial.
  • پاک می‌دانستش از هر غش و غل  ** باز از وهمش همی‌لرزید دل 
  • He knew him to be free from all deceitfulness and guile; (yet) again his heart was shaken with misgiving,
  • که مبادا کین بود خسته شود  ** من نخواهم که برو خجلت رود  1875
  • Lest this (charge) might be (true) and he (Ayáz) should be wounded (in his feelings). “I do not wish,” (he said), “that shame should come over him.
  • این نکردست او و گر کرد او رواست  ** هر چه خواهد گو بکن محبوب ماست 
  • He has not done this thing; and if he has, ’tis right: let him do whatever he will, (for) he is my beloved.
  • هر چه محبوبم کند من کرده‌ام  ** او منم من او چه گر در پرده‌ام 
  • Whatever my beloved may do, ’tis I have done (it). I am he, he is I: what (matter) though I am (hidden from view) in the veil?”
  • باز گفتی دور از آن خو و خصال  ** این چنین تخلیط ژاژست و خیال 
  • Again he would say, “He is far removed from this disposition and (these bad) qualities: such wild accusations (on their part) are (mere) drivel and fancy.
  • از ایاز این خود محالست و بعید  ** کو یکی دریاست قعرش ناپدید 
  • (That) this (should proceed) from Ayáz is absurd and incredible, for he is an ocean whereof none can see the bottom.”
  • هفت دریا اندرو یک قطره‌ای  ** جمله‌ی هستی ز موجش چکره‌ای  1880
  • The Seven Seas are (but) a drop in it: the whole of existence is (but) a driblet of its waves.
  • جمله پاکیها از آن دریا برند  ** قطره‌هااش یک به یک میناگرند 
  • All purities are fetched from that ocean: its drops, every one, are alchemists.
  • شاه شاهانست و بلک شاه‌ساز  ** وز برای چشم بد نامش ایاز 
  • He is the King of kings; nay, he is the King-maker, though on account of the evil eye his name is “Ayáz.”
  • چشمهای نیک هم بر وی به دست  ** از ره غیرت که حسنش بی‌حدست 
  • Even the good eyes are evil to him in respect of (their) jealousy, for his beauty is infinite.
  • یک دهان خواهم به پهنای فلک  ** تا بگویم وصف آن رشک ملک 
  • I want a mouth as broad as heaven to describe the qualities of him who is envied by the angels;
  • ور دهان یابم چنین و صد چنین  ** تنگ آید در فغان این حنین  1885
  • And if I should get a mouth like this and a hundred times as (broad as) this, it would be too narrow for (utterance of) this longing's distressful cry.