When Nawruz falls the wodd takes colour - openly:
Clouds cry aloud, mountains gather haze - openly:
Even the lifeless come to life - breathing openly:
Plants, before unseen, grow up and blossom - openly:
All creatures benefit or do us harm - openly:
They breed their kind and stealthily go by - openly:
Birds open beaks and sing when summer comes - openly.

Safe in his sandy home the crab opens his watery site1
Earth fills with grasses soft, to gratify our sight.
Each living thing revives as if with wine alight -
A thousand songs the nightingale sings from its height
And every tissue marvels at the songster's flight.
With tulips laden bows the land for our delight:
The whole world is on show now, shouting openly.

With dance and music merry does the earth's face glow;
Tune after tune, the dutah plies unwearied bow.
To loving souls, God's words eternal life bestow,
To loveless souls, Mortality its kiss will blow.
These weeks of spring pile green and greener green on show.
Here Resurrection trips with Judgement on her brow -
The world's great courtroom welcomes new souls openly.

Don't worship luxury, wealth's stuff will not remain
And woes are all a spendthrift's house can entertain.
Avoid what's written in fate's scroll? The hope is vain!
Don't harness up your soul with false regrets in train;
Good deeds are good when planned - but twice as good again
When practised. Time rolls on while men their sleep obtain.
When deeds are evil, ah !, hellfire's your gain, openly.

This poet weeps! Fortune presents an empty bowl:
Coarse hands, bare feet, bear witness to a famished soul.
Wishes are false when life slips from the heart's control.
My soul burns in my body like a flaming coal,
My hands stretch trembling out to God for mercy's dole.
Servant am I, but trust my Lord to make me whole
On Judgement Day, wear mercy like a rose - openly.