سندبادنامه 172.1

172.1

ستدی لک الایأم ماکنت حاهلا ویأتیک بالاخبار من لم تزود دوش درین وثاق ، جمع وفد عشاق بوذه است ؛ بیرون رفتن تو بوذد ودر آمذن جوانی بالا سرو بوستان ، وبچهره ماه آسمان ، رشک سرو جویبار ، وخجلت لعبت قندهار ، مشک از زلف او می ریحت ، وآفتاب در دامن جمالش می آویخت ، عکس جمالش خانه روشن کرد ، چنانک شمع از وی خجل شذ ، و گل رخسارش طارم وصفه گلشن گردانیذ ، چنانک گل از شرم رویش در عرق غرق گشت ، حان می گفت :

“The days will reveal to you what you were ignorant of, / and one you did not provision will bring you news.”
“Last night in this chamber, there was a gathering of lovers; your going out was matched immediately
by the arrival of a youth with the stature of a garden cypress and a face like the moon in the sky, the envy of the stream's cypress,
and the shame of the idol of Qandahār; musk poured from his tresses, and the sun clung to the hem of his beauty;
the reflection of his beauty illuminated the house, so that the candle felt ashamed before him, and the rose
of his cheek turned the arched chamber into a rose garden, so that the rose drowned in sweat from the shame of his face. The soul said:
‘By the name of God, by the name of God! Behold how it can be: