Ghazal No. 35

غزل شمارهٔ 35

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مثل آئینه مشو محو جمال دگران
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مثل آئینه مشو محو جمال دگران
از دل و دیده فرو شوی خیال دگران

Do not be like a mirror, which is taken up with others’ beauty. Cast away the thought of others from your mind.

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آتش از نالهٔ مرغان حرم گیر و بسوز
آشیانی که نهادی به نهال دگران

Acquire fire from the singing of the Harem birds, and burn away the nest that you have built in other people’s tree.

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در جهان بال و پر خویش گشودن آموز
که پریدن نتوان با پر و بال دگران

In this world learn to unfurl your own wings, for you can never fly with others’ wings.

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مرد آزادم و آن گونه غیورم که مرا
می‌توان کُشت به یک جام زلال دگران

I am an independent man and am so self-respecting too that you could kill me with a glass of water that belonged to someone else.

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ای که نزدیک‌تر از جانی و پنهان ز نگه
هجر تو خوشترم آید ز وصال دگران

O You, closer to my soul than all else, yet hidden from my sight, your separation from me is dearer to me than union with all others.

Zameen

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Persian text source: Ganjoor

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