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  • آن هم از تاثیر لعنت بود کو  ** در چنان حضرت همی‌شد عمرجو 
  • Moreover, ’twas from the effect of the (Divine) curse that in such a Presence he was requesting (long) life.
  • از خدا غیر خدا را خواستن  ** ظن افزونیست و کلی کاستن 
  • To crave of God aught other than God is (merely) the supposition of gain, and (in reality) it is entire loss;
  • خاصه عمری غرق در بیگانگی  ** در حضور شیر روبه‌شانگی 
  • Especially (to desire) a life sunk in estrangement (from God) is to behave like a fox in the presence of the lion,
  • عمر بیشم ده که تا پس‌تر روم  ** مهلم افزون کن که تا کمتر شوم  775
  • (Saying), “Give me longer life that I may go farther back; grant me more time that I may become less.”
  • تا که لعنت را نشانه او بود  ** بد کسی باشد که لعنت‌جو بود 
  • (The result is) that he (such an one) is a mark for the (Divine) curse: evil is that one who seeks to be accursed.
  • عمر خوش در قرب جان پروردنست  ** عمر زاغ از بهر سرگین خوردنست 
  • The goodly life is to nourish the spirit in nearness (to God); the crow's life is for the sake of eating dung.
  • عمر بیشم ده که تا گه می‌خورم  ** دایم اینم ده که بس بدگوهرم 
  • (The crow says), “Give me more life that I may be ever eating dung: give me this always, for I am very evil-natured.”
  • گرنه گه خوارست آن گنده‌دهان  ** گویدی کز خوی زاغم وا رهان 
  • Were it not that that foul-mouthed one is a dung-eater, he would say, “Deliver me from the nature of the crow!”
  • مناجات 
  • Prayer.
  • ای مبدل کرده خاکی را به زر  ** خاک دیگر را بکرده بوالبشر  780
  • O Thou who hast transmuted one clod of earth into gold, and another clod into the Father of mankind,
  • کار تو تبدیل اعیان و عطا  ** کار من سهوست و نسیان و خطا 
  • Thy work is the transmutation of essences and (the showing of) munificence; my work is mistake and forgetfulness and error.