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The cow one day started saying to the camel
Nothing in the world rests in one condition |
I am ignominious by breaking my rope
I hear you have also broken your nose string |
Though you are important in India for political reasons
But due to railway the Arabian desert finds no use for you |
Till yesterday you were avoiding the cow’s companionship
The voice of ‘never’ on your hanging lips was persistent |
What is the matter that you are so favorable to me today
That old displeasure does not exist in your heart today |
Hearing this speech the camel bashfully said
I am also to be counted among your lovers |
The envy of hundreds of camel’s ogle is your one frisk
Since long I am the lover of such a frisk |
The effects of your tumults have spread in the forest such
That speech has produced its taste even among the speechless |
I am living only in one desert since a long time
As I have nothing I am fed on borrowed money |
If goat, camel, cow, leopard and the lame donkey
All exist in the same condition we shall have prestige |
If the gardener learns the lesson of uniformity
Why should not the gardens’ birds live in harmony |
Give me also the same cup as only this appears proper
You should be intoxicated, your companions should also be intoxicated |
“The patched garment of Hafiz is worthless, color him with wine
Then bring him to the market, lost and intoxicated |
Translated by: M.A.K. Khalil |
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