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  • رقعه گر بر پر مرغی دوختی ** پر مرغ از تف رقعه سوختی 4755
  • If he sewed the letter on the wing of a bird, the bird's wing would be burnt by the ardour of the letter.
  • راههای چاره را غیرت ببست ** لشکر اندیشه را رایت شکست
  • The (Divine) jealousy barred (all) the ways of device and broke the banner of the army of cogitation.
  • بود اول مونس غم انتظار ** آخرش بشکست کی هم انتظار
  • At first, expectation was the comforting friend of (his) sorrow; at last, there broke him—who? Even (the same) expectation.
  • گاه گفتی کین بلای بی‌دواست ** گاه گفتی نه حیات جان ماست
  • Sometimes he would say, “This is an irremediable affliction”; sometimes he would say, “No, it is the life of my spirit.”
  • گاه هستی زو بر آوردی سری ** گاه او از نیستی خوردی بری
  • Sometimes (self-) existence would lift up a head from him (appear in him); sometimes he would eat of the fruit of non-existence.
  • چونک بر وی سرد گشتی این نهاد ** جوش کردی گرم چشمه‌ی اتحاد 4760
  • When this (bodily) nature became cold (irksome and useless) to him, the fountain of union (with the beloved) would boil hotly.
  • چونک با بی‌برگی غربت بساخت ** برگ بی‌برگی به سوی او بتاخت
  • When he put up with (contented himself with) the unprovidedness of exile, the provision of unprovidedness hastened towards him.
  • خوشه‌های فکرتش بی‌کاه شد ** شب‌روان را رهنما چون ماه شد
  • The wheat-ears of his thought were purged of chaff: he became, like the moon, a guide to the night-travellers.
  • ای بسا طوطی گویای خمش ** ای بسا شیرین‌روان رو ترش
  • Oh, there is many a parrot that speaks though it is mute; oh, there is many a sweet-spirited one whose face is sour.
  • رو به گورستان دمی خامش نشین ** آن خموشان سخن‌گو را ببین
  • Go to the graveyard, sit awhile in silence, and behold those eloquent silent ones;