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بخش ۶۴ - ندبه حکیم هشتم / Section 64 - The Lament of the Eighth Sage

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ز هشتم جز این نکته سر بر نزد
که کس کوس ملک سکندر نزد

سفرها که او کرد گرد جهان
نکرده کس از خیل شاهنشهان

ولیکن به هر سو سفر ساز کرد
ره آن به زور سپه باز کرد

جز این یک سفر کز همه دور ماند
جنیبت به منزلگه گور راند

English translation

From the eighth, no point emerged but this: that no one has beaten the war-drum of Alexander's kingdom. The journeys he made around the world, none of the throng of emperors has made. Yet to every direction he prepared a journey, and opened that road by the force of his army. Except this one journey, which remained apart from all, when he drove his led-horse to the dwelling-place of the grave.

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