Many times I have said it
Hafezحافظ
بارها گفتهام و بار دگر میگویم
Many times I have said it, and I say it once again:
که من دلشده این ره، نه به خود میپویم
heart-lost, I do not walk this road of my own accord.
در پس آینه، طوطیصفتم داشتهاند
They have kept me like a parrot behind the mirror;
آن چه استاد ازل گفت بگو، میگویم
what the Master of eternity told me to say, I say.
من اگر خارم و گر گل چمنآرایی هست
Whether I am a thorn or a rose, there is one who tends the meadow,
که از آن دست که او میکشدم، میرویم
and as his hand draws me up, so I grow.
دوستان! عیب من بیدل حیران مکنید
Friends, do not find fault with me, heartless and bewildered;
گوهری دارم و صاحب نظری میجویم
I have a jewel, and I am looking for someone with an eye for it.
گر چه با دلق ملمع، می گلگون عیب است
Though rose-coloured wine is a fault in one who wears the patched cloak,
مکنم عیب کزو رنگ ریا میشویم
do not fault me, for with it I wash away the colour of hypocrisy.
خنده و گریه عشاق ز جایی دگر است
The laughter and tears of lovers come from another place:
میسرایم به شب و وقت سحر میمویم
I sing at night, and at dawn I mourn.
حافظم گفت که «خاک در میخانه مبوی»
Hafez told me: “Do not sniff the dust of the tavern door”;
گو «مکن عیب که من مشک ختن میبویم»
tell him: “Do not find fault, for I smell the musk of Khotan.”
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مرغی دیدم نشسته بر باره طوس
در پیش نهاده کله کیکاووس
I saw a bird perched on the ramparts of Tus,
with the skull of Kay Kavus set down before it.
A Bird on the Walls of Tus
یکی قطره باران ز ابری چکید
خجل شد چو پهنای دریا بدید
A drop of rain fell from a cloud;
it was ashamed when it saw the breadth of the sea.
A Drop of Rain
ابتدای کار سیمرغ ای عجب
جلوهگر بگذشت بر چین نیمشب
The beginning of the Simorgh’s story, how wonderful:
in all his splendour he passed over China at midnight.