The Birds Assemble
Attarعطار
مجمعی کردند مرغان جهان
The birds of the world held an assembly,
آنچ بودند آشکارا و نهان
all there were, the seen and the unseen.
جمله گفتند این زمان در دور کار
All of them said: ‘In this present age
نیست خالی هیچ شهر از شهریار
no city anywhere is without its king.
چون بود کاقلیم ما را شاه نیست
How is it that our realm has no king?
بیش از این بی شاه بودن راه نیست
We can go on no longer without a king.
یک دگر را شاید ار یاری کنیم
It is right that we help one another
پادشاهی را طلب کاری کنیم
and go together in search of a king.
زانک چون کشور بود بی پادشاه
For when a country is without a king,
نظم و ترتیبی نماند در سپاه
no order or discipline remains in its army.’
A note for readers
These couplets open the main story of The Conference of the Birds: the birds gather and agree that they need a king. The hoopoe answers that they already have one, the Simorgh, and offers to lead them to him. The excerpt gives the first five couplets of the scene.
More poemsشعرهای دیگر
یک عمر می‌توان سخن از زلف یار گفت
در بند آن مباش که مضمون نمانده است
One could speak for a lifetime of the beloved’s tresses;
do not fret that there are no themes left.
A Lifetime on the Beloved’s Tresses
بلبلی برگ گلی خوش رنگ در منقار داشت
و اندر آن برگ و نوا خوش ناله‌های زار داشت
A nightingale held in its beak a rose petal of lovely colour,
and with that petal and its song it made sweet, piteous laments.
A nightingale held a rose petal
ستاره ای بدرخشید و ماه مجلس شد
دل رمیده ما را رفیق و مونس شد
A star shone out and became the moon of the gathering,
became friend and companion to our startled heart.