- Since undiscriminating persons are our rulers, they carry off the owner of the ass instead of the ass. 2545
- چونک بی‌تمییزیان‌مان سرورند ** صاحب خر را به جای خر برند
- (But) the King of our city is not one who takes at random: He has discrimination, He is hearing and seeing.
- نیست شاه شهر ما بیهوده گیر ** هست تمییزش سمیعست و بصیر
- Be a man and do not be afraid of those who take the asses: thou art not an ass: be not afraid, O Jesus of the (world of) Time.
- آدمی باش و ز خرگیران مترس ** خر نه‌ای ای عیسی دوران مترس
- The Fourth Heaven, moreover, is filled with thy light: God forbid (that I should say) that the Stable is thy abode.
- چرخ چارم هم ز نور تو پرست ** حاش لله که مقامت آخرست
- Thou art higher even than the sky and the stars, though for a good reason thou art (temporarily) in the Stable.
- تو ز چرخ و اختران هم برتری ** گرچه بهر مصلحت در آخری
- The Master of the Stable is one thing and the ass another: not every one who has entered the Stable is an ass. 2550
- میر آخر دیگر و خر دیگرست ** نه هر آنک اندر آخر شد خرست
- Why have we fallen in behind the ass? Tell of the Rose-garden and the fresh roses,
- چه در افتادیم در دنبال خر ** از گلستان گوی و از گلهای تر
- And of the pomegranate and the citron and the apple-bough, and of the wine and the fair youths innumerable,
- از انار و از ترنج و شاخ سیب ** وز شراب و شاهدان بی‌حساب
- Or of the Sea whose waves are pearls and whose pearls are speaking and seeing,
- یا از آن دریا که موجش گوهرست ** گوهرش گوینده و بیناورست
- Or of the Birds which pick roses and lay eggs of silver and gold,
- یا از آن مرغان که گل‌چین می‌کنند ** بیضه‌ها زرین و سیمین می‌کنند