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دلارامی که رونق جمال او رفته بود و ظلمت ریش صفحه رویش گرفته، طالبان را از مصاحبت خود صبور می دید و عاشقان را از مواصلت خود نفور دانست که حجاب ایشان مویی چند است بر عارض و زنخدان دمیده و از آن دام بی اندام مرغ دل ایشان رمیده.
جحامی را طلب کرد که از بی یاری بجان آمده ام و از بی خریداری به فغان! بیا و این حجاب را از پیش بردار و این دام را از هم بردر. حجام مردی ظریف بود و طبعی لطیف داشت، پاکی می راند و این قطعه می خواند:

نوبت خوبی امرد چو سرآید آن به
که پی عشوه بناگوش و ذقن نتراشد

لوح عارض چو شد از موی تراشیده درشت
چوب ساییست که جز صفحه دل نخراشد

English translation

A charming beloved whose beauty's luster had faded and whose face's page had been overtaken by the darkness of a beard saw that seekers had grown resigned to giving up his company, and knew that lovers had come to shun union with him — for their veil was but a few hairs sprouted upon his cheek and chin, and from that shapeless snare the bird of their heart had fled.

He summoned a barber, saying: I have grown weary of life for want of a companion, and cry out for want of a suitor! Come, lift this veil from before me, and tear this snare apart. The barber was a witty man of refined temperament; he shaved him clean and recited this fragment:

When the season of a beardless youth's comeliness comes to its end, it is better that he not shave his sideburns and chin for the sake of coquetry. When the tablet of the cheek has grown rough from shaved hair, it is a rasp of wood that scratches nothing but the tablet of the heart.

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