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2855-2864

  • There is in the world a green island where a sweet-mouthed cow lives alone. 2855
  • یک جزیره‌ی سبز هست اندر جهان  ** اندرو گاویست تنها خوش‌دهان 
  • She feeds on the whole field till nightfall, so that she grows stout and big and choice.
  • جمله صحرا را چرد او تا به شب  ** تا شود زفت و عظیم و منتجب 
  • During the night she becomes thin as a hair from anxiety, because she thinks, “What shall I eat to-morrow?”
  • شب ز اندیشه که فردا چه خورم  ** گردد او چون تار مو لاغر ز غم 
  • At rise of dawn the field becomes green: the green blades and grain have grown up to (a man's) middle.
  • چون برآید صبح گردد سبز دشت  ** تا میان رسته قصیل سبز و کشت 
  • The cow falls to ravenously: till night she feeds on that (vegetation and devours it) entirely.
  • اندر افتد گاو با جوع البقر  ** تا به شب آن را چرد او سر به سر 
  • Again she becomes stout and fat and bulky: her body is filled with fat and strength. 2860
  • باز زفت و فربه و لمتر شود  ** آن تنش از پیه و قوت پر شود 
  • Then again at night she (is stricken) by panic (and) falls into a fever (of anxiety), so that from fear of seeking (vainly) for fodder she becomes lean,
  • باز شب اندر تب افتد از فزع  ** تا شود لاغر ز خوف منتجع 
  • Thinking, “What shall I eat to-morrow at meal-time?” This is what that cow does for (many) years.
  • که چه خواهم خورد فردا وقت خور  ** سالها اینست کار آن بقر 
  • She never thinks, “All these years I have been eating from this meadow and this pasture;
  • هیچ نندیشد که چندین سال من  ** می‌خورم زین سبزه‌زار و زین چمن 
  • My provender has never failed (even) for a day: what, (then), is this fear and anguish and heart-burning of mine?”
  • هیچ روزی کم نیامد روزیم  ** چیست این ترس و غم و دلسوزیم