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
Those thousands of ells (are made to) appear to him (as) two ells, in order that from mad infatuation the impulse to leap may come to him.
آن هزاران گز دو گز بنمایدش ** تا ز مستی میل جستن آیدش
As soon as he leaps, he falls midway between the two pitiless mountains.
چونک بجهد در فتد اندر میان ** در میان هر دو کوه بی امان
He had fled to the mountain (to escape) from the hunters: his very refuge shed his blood.815
او ز صیادان به که بگریخته ** خود پناهش خون او را ریخته
The hunters are seated between the two mountains in expectation of this awesome decree (of God).
شسته صیادان میان آن دو کوه ** انتظار این قضای با شکوه
The capture of this (mountain-)goat is, for the most part, (accomplished) in this manner; else (it would be difficult, for) he is agile and nimble and quick to see the enemy.
باشد اغلب صید این بز همچنین ** ورنه چالاکست و چست و خصمبین