Story OF THE HUSBAND AND WIFE حکایت زن و شوهر
Story of the Husband and Wife (حکایت زن و شوهر) is from Chapter VII, On Training and Instruction (در عالم تربیت) of Saadi’s Bustan (بوستان, “The Orchard”), written in 1257. The Persian verses are given with a rhymed English translation, couplet by couplet.
Bustan Saadi بوستان سعدی
| A youth on account of the shrew he had wed, In an aged man’s presence lamented and said: | جوانی ز ناسازگاری جفت بر پیرمردی بنالید و گفت |
| “A load at the hand of this impudent foe I bear, like the mill-stone fixed, helpless, below.” | گران باری از دست این خصم چیر چنان میبرم کسیا سنگ زیر |
| “Put up with her harshness, oh sir I “he replied; “No man is ashamed if his patience be tried! | به سختی بنه گفتش، ای خواجه، دل کس از صبر کردن نگردد خجل |
| Oh scapegrace ! at night you as upper stone sway, Why not serve as the under one, during the day? | به شب سنگ بالایی ای خانه سوز چرا سنگ زیرین نباشی به روز؟ |
| When you’ve culled from a rose-bush of pleasure a deal, It is right that the pain of its thorns you should feel. | چو از گلبنی دیده باشی خوشی روا باشد ار بار خارش کشی |
| When you’re always partaking of fruit from a tree; When you taste of the prickles, long-suffering be!” | درختی که پیوسته بارش خوری تحمل کن آنگه که خارش خوری |
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