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پنج پایک را گفتند چرا به شکل کج پیکران افتادی و پای در میدان کجروی نهادی؟ گفت: از مار تجربه برداشتم که با آن راستی و راستروی همیشه از سنگ جفا سرکوفته است یا از زخم ستم دم بریده.
هرجا پری به صورت خود گردد آشکار

او را چو جان کشند در آغوش خویش تنگ
هرجا به شکل راست برآید به سان مار

سنگین دلان ز دور زنندش به چوب و سنگ

English translation

They asked the compass: Why have you taken the shape of the crooked-bodied and set foot in the field of crooked-going? It said: I took a lesson from the snake, for despite all its straightness and straight-going, it has ever been battered on the head by the stone of cruelty, or had its tail severed by the wound of oppression.

Wherever a fairy appears in its own true form, they draw it, like the soul, tightly into their embrace; Wherever it comes forth straight, in the likeness of a snake, the stone-hearted ones beat it from afar with stick and stone.

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