Anyone who burns down my harvest, who ruins me,
must do it with weeping and lament.
On the rose that springs up from my dust,
I wish a nightingale would make its home.
Explanation: The rose growing from the poet's dust is a classic image of the dead returning as flowers; the mourning nightingale stands for a lover who keeps grieving over him.
Original · Persian
شمارهٔ ۱۵
هر کس به من سوخته خرمن سازد
شرطست که با ناله و شیون سازد
بر شاخ گلی که سرزند از خاکم
ای کاش که بلبلی نشیمن سازد