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The Story of Rostam and Esfandiār from the Shāhnāme of
Ferdawsi |
داستان رستم و اسفندیار |
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Text & Translation |
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576
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If one would feast, the other strive for vengeance,
Consider which the more deserveth praise.” |
یکی بزم جوید یکی رزم و کین
نگه کن که تا کیست با آفرین |
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577
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The prince replied: “If I shall not obey
The Sháh |
چنین داد پاسخ ورا نامدار
که گر من بپیچم سر از شهریار |
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578
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I shall be censured in this world,
And God will call me to account hereafter. |
بدین گیتی اندر نکوهش بود
همان پیش یزدان پژوهش بود |
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579
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I would not sell both worlds for Rustam's sake;
No man will sew up his own eyes and heart.” |
دو گیتی به رستم نخواهم فروخت
کسی چشم دین را به سوزن ندوخت |
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The other said: “The outcome of good counsel.
Will profit thy pure body and thy soul. |
بدو گفت هر چیز کآمد ز پند
تن پاک و جان تو را سودمند |
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581
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I have said all. Now choose thee which is best;
A prince's heart should be above revenge.” |
همه گفتم اکنون بهی برگزین
دل شهریاران نیازد به کین |
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582
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The chieftain bade the cooks to spread the board,
But said to no one: “Summon Rustam hither.” |
سپهبد ز خوالیگران خواست خوان
کسی را نفرمود کو را بخوان |
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583
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The eating done he took the cup in hand,
Spake of the Brazen Hold, |
چو نان خورده شد جام می برگرفت
ز رویین دژ آنگه سخن درگرفت |
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584
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of his own manhood,
And drank in honour of the king of kings, |
از آن مردی خود همی یاد کرد
به یاد شهنشاه جامی بخورد |
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585
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While Rustam stayed within his palace-walls,
Remembering his promise to eat bread. |
همی بود رستم به ایوان خویش
ز خوردن نگه داشت پیمان خویش |
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586
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Now when a long while passed and no one came,
Though Rustam often looked along the road, |
چو چندی برآمد نیامد کسی
نگه کرد رستم به ره بر بسی |
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587
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And when the time for feasting had gone by,
The hero's dignity could brook no more. |
چو هنگام نان خوردن اندر گذشت
ز مغز دلیر آب برتر گذشت |
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588
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He smiled and said: “My brother! deck the board,
And summon to the feast the men of birth. |
بخندید و گفت ای برادر تو خوان
بیارای و آزادگان را بخوان |
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589 |
If 'tis the custom of Asfandiyár
To treat us with such superciliousness |
گر این است آیین اسفندیار
تو آیین این نامدار یاددار |
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590
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As to invite and then not summon us,
Hope for no good from him.”
He spake. They decked
The board and, having eaten, rose. Then said
The heroic paladin to Farámarz:—
“Bid saddle Rakhsh as they would do in Chín. |
بفرمود تا رخش را زین کنند
همان زین به آرایش چین کنند |
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I shall go back and tell Asfandiyár:—
‘Prince though thou art, remember: he that breaketh
His plighted word hath in himself effaced
The pathway that the great and good have traced.’” |
شوم باز گویم به اسفندیار
کجا کار ما را گرفتست خوار |
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