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بخش ۵۷ - ندبه حکیم اول / Section 57 - The Lament of the First Sage

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یکی گفت وقت است ای هوشیار
که گیریم از حال شاه اعتبار

ببینیم کایام با او چه کرد
سپهر کج اندام با او چه کرد

فلک تاج دولت ربود از سرش
لباس بزرگی کشید از برش

هر آن سختیی کز سرای درشت
ز اقبال دولت بر او داشت پشت

کنون رو به سوی وی آورده است
به پای سریرش پی آورده است

هر آسانیی کز مدار سپهر
نمود اندر ایام شاهیش چهر

کنون روی اقبال ازو تافته ست
به تیغ غمش زهره بشکافته ست

ازان بخت بیدار از اینسان که خفت
سزد گر کند مرد دانا شگفت

چنین کز شکر خنده اش لب جداست
به خون گر بگریند بر وی رواست

ولی گل چو صرصر ز شاخش ربود
بر او گریه ز ابر بهاران چه سود

English translation

One said: it is time, O wise one, that we take a lesson from the state of the king. Let us see what the days did to him, what the crooked-bodied sphere did to him. The heavens seized the crown of fortune from his head, and drew the robe of greatness off his body. Every hardship that, from the rough abode, by the favor of fortune had turned its back on him, now has turned its face toward him, and brought its trail to the foot of his throne. Every ease that, from the orbit of the sphere, showed its face in the days of his kingship, now the face of fortune has turned away from him, and with the sword of its grief has split his gall. That wakeful fortune having thus fallen asleep, it is fitting that the wise man should marvel. Now that his lips are parted from sweet laughter, if they weep blood over him it is fitting. But when the storm-wind snatched the rose from its branch, what use is the weeping of the spring clouds over it?

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