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1908-1917

  • In the presence of Joseph do not give thyself airs and behave like a beauty: offer nothing but the supplication and sighs of Jacob.
  • پیش یوسف نازش و خوبی مکن ** جز نیاز و آه یعقوبی مکن‌‌
  • The meaning of dying (as conveyed) by the parrot was supplication (self-abasement): make thyself dead in supplication and poverty (of spirit),
  • معنی مردن ز طوطی بد نیاز ** در نیاز و فقر خود را مرده ساز
  • That the breath of Jesus may revive thee and make thee fair and blessed as itself. 1910
  • تا دم عیسی ترا زنده کند ** همچو خویشت خوب و فرخنده کند
  • How should a rock be covered with verdure by the Spring? Become earth, that thou mayst display flowers of many a hue.
  • از بهاران کی شود سر سبز سنگ ** خاک شو تا گل برویی رنگ رنگ‌‌
  • Years hast thou been a heart-jagging rock: once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!
  • سالها تو سنگ بودی دل خراش ** آزمون را یک زمانی خاک باش‌‌
  • The story of the old harper who in the time of ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, on a day when he was starving played the harp for God's sake in the graveyard.
  • داستان پیر چنگی که در عهد عمر از بهر خدا روز بی‌‌نوایی چنگ زد میان گورستان‌‌
  • Hast thou heard that in the time of ‘Umar there was a harper, a fine and glorious minstrel?
  • آن شنیده ستی که در عهد عمر ** بود چنگی مطربی با کر و فر
  • The nightingale would be made beside herself by his voice: by his beautiful voice one rapture would be turned into a hundred.
  • بلبل از آواز او بی‌‌خود شدی ** یک طرب ز آواز خوبش صد شدی‌‌
  • His breath was an ornament to assembly and congregation, and at his song the dead would arise. 1915
  • مجلس و مجمع دمش آراستی ** وز نوای او قیامت خاستی‌‌
  • (He was) like Isráfíl (Seraphiel), whose voice will cunningly bring the souls of the dead into their bodies,
  • همچو اسرافیل کاوازش به فن ** مردگان را جان در آرد در بدن‌‌
  • Or he was (like) an accompanist to Isráfíl, for his music would make the elephant grow wings.
  • یا رسیلی بود اسرافیل را ** کز سماعش پر برستی فیل را