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  • Love, in the hour of domination and anger, makes the pleasing ones to become hideous to the eye.
  • عشق در هنگام استیلا و خشم ** زشت گرداند لطیفان را به چشم
  • Love’s jealousy causes every emerald to appear as a leek: this is the (inner) meaning of Lá.
  • هر زمرد را نماید گندنا ** غیرت عشق این بود معنی لا
  • O (thou who givest) protection , (the meaning of) “There is no god but He” is that the moon should seem to thee a black kettle.
  • لااله الا هو اینست ای پناه ** که نماید مه ترا دیگ سیاه
  • No wealth, no treasury, and no goods or gear were being grudged by her (Bilqis) except her throne.
  • هیچ مال و هیچ مخزن هیچ رخت ** می دریغش نامد الا جز که تخت
  • Then Solomon became aware of (this feeling in) her heart, for the way was open from his heart to hers. 870
  • پس سلیمان از دلش آگاه شد ** کز دل او تا دل او راه شد
  • He that hears the voice of ants will also hear the cry from the inmost soul of them that are afar.
  • آن کسی که بانگ موران بشنود ** هم فغان سر دوران بشنود
  • He that declares the mystery of “an ant said” will also know the mystery of this ancient dome.
  • آنک گوید راز قالت نملة ** هم بداند راز این طاق کهن
  • From afar he (Solomon) discerned that to her (Bilqís) who was following the path of resignation ‘twas bitter to part with her throne.
  • دید از دورش که آن تسلیم کیش ** تلخش آمد فرقت آن تخت خویش
  • If I explain the reason why she had that love and complaisance to her throne, it (the discourse) will become (too) long.
  • گر بگویم آن سبب گردد دراز ** که چرا بودش به تخت آن عشق و ساز
  • Although this reed-pen is in fact an insensible thing and is not homogeneous with the writer, (yet) it is a familiar friend to him. 875
  • گرچه این کلک قلم خود بی‌حسیست ** نیست جنس کاتب او را مونسیست