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157-166

  • (But) that thorn-removing physician was an expert: putting his hand on one spot after another, he tested (it).
  • آن حکیم خارچین استاد بود ** دست می‌‌زد جا به جا می‌‌آزمود
  • He inquired of the girl concerning her friends, by way of narrative,
  • ز ان کنیزک بر طریق داستان ** باز می‌‌پرسید حال دوستان‌‌
  • And she disclosed to the physician (many) circumstances touching her home and (former) masters and town and dwelling.
  • با حکیم او قصه‌‌ها می‌‌گفت فاش ** از مقام و خاجگان و شهر تاش‌‌
  • He listened to her story (while) he continued to observe her pulse and its beating, 160
  • سوی قصه گفتنش می‌‌داشت گوش ** سوی نبض و جستنش می‌‌داشت هوش‌‌
  • So that at whosoever's name her pulse should begin to throb, (he might know that) that person is the object of her soul's desire in the world.
  • تا که نبض از نام کی گردد جهان ** او بود مقصود جانش در جهان‌‌ا ن‌‌
  • He reckoned up the friends and town; then he mentioned another town by name.
  • دوستان شهر او را بر شمرد ** بعد از آن شهری دگر را نام برد
  • He said: “When you went forth from your own town, in which town did you live mostly?”
  • گفت چون بیرون شدی از شهر خویش ** در کدامین شهر بوده ستی تو بیش‌‌
  • She mentioned the name of a certain town and from that too she passed on (to speak of another, and meanwhile) there was no change in the colour of her face or in her pulse.
  • نام شهری گفت وز آن هم در گذشت ** رنگ روی و نبض او دیگر نگشت‌‌
  • Masters and towns, one by one, she told of, and about dwelling-place and bread and salt. 165
  • خواجگان و شهرها را یک به یک ** باز گفت از جای و از نان و نمک‌‌
  • She told stories of many a town and many a house, (and still) no vein of her quivered nor did her cheek grow pale.
  • شهر شهر و خانه خانه قصه کرد ** نی رگش جنبید و نی رخ گشت زرد