- The bait in His snare produced intoxication like this: what things, (then), can the table of His bounty reveal!
- دانهی دامش چنین مستی نمود ** خوان انعامش چهها داند گشود
- They were drunken and freed from the noose: they were uttering rapturous cries in the fashion of lovers;
- مست بودند و رهیده از کمند ** های هوی عاشقانه میزدند
- (But) in their road there was one ambush and trial: its mighty wind would sweep the mountain away like straw. 805
- یک کمین و امتحان در راه بود ** صرصرش چون کاه که را میربود
- The (Divine) trial was turning them upside down, (but) how should one that is drunken have consciousness of these things?
- امتحان میکردشان زیر و زبر ** کی بود سرمست را زینها خبر
- To him pit and open field are one, to him dungeon and pit are a pleasant path to tread.
- خندق و میدان بپیش او یکیست ** چاه و خندق پیش او خوش مسلکیست
- The mountain-goat runs up that high mountain for the sake of (getting) some harmless food.
- آن بز کوهی بر آن کوه بلند ** بر دود از بهر خوردی بیگزند
- Whilst he browses, suddenly he sees another trick played by the ordinance of Heaven.
- تا علف چیند ببیند ناگهان ** بازیی دیگر ز حکم آسمان
- He casts his gaze upon another mountain: on that other mountain he espies a she-goat. 810
- بر کهی دیگر بر اندازد نظر ** ماده بز بیند بر آن کوه دگر
- Straightway his eye is darkened: he leaps madly from this mountain to that.
- چشم او تاریک گردد در زمان ** بر جهد سرمست زین که تا بدان
- To him it seems as near (and easy) as to run round the sink (in the court) of a house.
- آنچنان نزدیک بنماید ورا ** که دویدن گرد بالوعهی سرا