Story OF THE PHYSICIAN AND THE PEASANT حکایت طبیب و کرد
Story of the Physician and the Peasant (حکایت طبیب و کرد) is from Chapter V, On Resignation (در رضا) 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 peasant one night could not sleep from an ache In his side. A physician who practised there spake: | شبی کردی از درد پهلو نخفت طبیبی در آن ناحیت بود و گفت |
| “From his habit of eating vine leaves this ache springs; ‘Twill be strange, if the night to a finish he brings | از این دست کو برگ رز می‌خورد عجب دارم ار شب به پایان برد |
| For a Tartar’s hard arrow-head, stuck in the chest, Is better than eating what will not digest. | که در سینه پیکان تیر تتار به از نقل ماکول ناسازگار |
| xIn a twist of the gut should a morsel be caught, ‘ The whole of the life of the fool comes to naught.” | گر افتد به یک لقمه در روده پیچ همه عمر نادان برآید به هیچ |
| It occurred that the doctor expired that same night; Forty years have elapsed and the swain is all right. | قضا را طبیب اندر آن شب بمرد چهل سال از این رفت و زنده‌ست کرد |
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