Basatin al-uns 71.93

71.93

نشسته بودهام با همدمی چندکه دارد مهرشان با روح پیوند روان کرده دو کشتی بی محابا یکی از می دوم کشتی دریا همه خود را بهکار آب داده کزان صد شور در دریا فتاده حباب أسا کشیده شیشه احباب بهرغم چرخ مینا بر رخ آب صراحی آمده چون بحر در جوش پیاله چون صدف میگشت خاموش مهی کز رشک او مهر است در تاب همی کرد آتشی هر لحظه در آب بههر سو توده از مرجان و گوهر دماغ از عنبر سارا معطر مغنی ز آب دستی ییش اصحاب بسی میداد کار رود را آب همایون مجلسی بس روح پرور ز هر چیزی که خوش گویند خوشتر همه دلها بعون بخت مسرور بمانده دیدهآ بدبین از او دور تا در میانهٔ‌ دریا رسیدیم، بدان جهاز از بادهای مخالف مانند متجرعان کشتی باده تغیر راه یافت و تختههای آن که چون خط مسلسل با یکدیگر پیوسته بود مانند حروف مقطع از یکدیگر متفرق و جدا جدا ماند و چون سخنان شاعر بی معنی و نامرتبط منتظم گشت و از صدمت موجهای کوه اسای دریا بهسان امید ظالم خراب و ناچیز شد.

I had been sitting with a few companions, / whose affection was bound up with the soul,
Having launched two ships without heed: / one of wine, the second the ship of the sea;
All had abandoned themselves to the work of the water, / whereby a hundred tumults fell upon the sea.
Like bubbles, the friends lifted bottles / to spite the crystal sphere upon the face of the water;
The flagon came to a boil like the sea, / the cup became silent like a seashell;
A moon from whose envy the sun is in torment / cast fire into the water at every moment;
On every side a heap of coral and pearls, / the senses perfumed with pure ambergris;
The singer, with a dexterous hand before the companions, / added much luster to the play of the lute;
An august assembly, most soul-nourishing, / sweeter than anything of which men speak sweetly;
All hearts made joyful by the aid of fortune, / the eye of the ill-wisher kept far away from it—
until we reached the middle of the sea, and upon that ship, from contrary winds—like those who swallow cups of wine—alteration found its way;
and its planks, which were joined together like a continuous chain-script, became dispersed and separated from one another like disconnected letters;
and, like the meaningless and disjointed words of a poet, they became arranged; and from the blow
and by the impact of the sea's mountain-like waves, it became ruined and brought to naught, like the hope of a tyrant.