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The Death of "Nazli" by
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The Death of "Nāzli" by Ahmad Shāmlu |
مرگ «نازلی» از احمد شاملو |
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The Death of "Nāzli" (or, The Death of Vārtān Sālākhāniān) |
مرگ «نازلی» (وارطان سالاخانیان) |
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Nāzli! Spring smiled and the Judas tree bloomed. |
نازلی! بهار خنده زد و ارغوان شکفت. |
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At home, under the window, the old Jasmine has budded. |
در خانه، زیر پنجره گل داد یاس پیر. |
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Remove [your] hand from doubt! (give up doubting) |
دست از گمان بدار! |
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With sinister death do not wrestle! |
با مرگ نحس پنجه میفکن! |
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Being is better than becoming not being, especially in the Spring |
بودن به از نبود شدن، خاصه در بهار... |
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Nazli said nothing |
نازلی سخن نگفت، |
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Head high, he clenched tooth of anger on wounded liver/heart and
went. |
سرافراز دندان خشم بر جگر خسته بست و رفت. |
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Nāzli! Talk! |
نازلی! سخن بگو! |
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The bird of silence, the chick of a tragic death
in the nest,
is sitting on the egg (the bird is sitting on the egg that
will be the birth of a tragic death) |
مرغ سکوت، جوجهٔ مرگی فجیع را
در آشیان به بیضه نشسته‌اس! |
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Nāzli did not say a word |
نازلی سخن نگفت، |
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Like
the sun
appeard from darkness and settled in blood and
went. |
چو خورشید
از تیرگی برآمد و در خون نشست و رفت. |
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Nāzli did not say a word |
نازلی سخن نگفت |
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Nāzli was a star |
نازلی ستاره بود: |
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Suddenly in this darkness, he lit up and leapt and went. |
یک‌دم درین ظلام درخشید و جست و رفت. |
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Nāzli did not say a word |
نازلی سخن نگفت |
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Nāzli was a violet |
نازلی بنفشه بود: |
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He flowered and |
گل داد و |
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gave the good tidings: "Winter was defeated!" |
مژده داد: «زمستان شکست!» |
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and
left ... |
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رفت.... |
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