THE WALL · POEM 14 OF 21

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The Defeat of Longing

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It was a fire, and it grew cold.

آتشی بود و فسرد

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It was a thread, and it broke.

رشته ای بود و گسست

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When my heart escaped your bonds,

دل چو از بند تو رست

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the magical cup of sorrow shattered.

جام جادویی اندوه شکست

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I came to cling to you,

آمدم تا بتو آویزم

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but I saw that you were that leafless branch.

لیک دیدم که تو آن شاخه بی برگی

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But I saw that, upon the face of my hope,

لیک دیدم که تو بر چهره امیدم

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you were the laughter of death.

خنده مرگی

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Ah, how sweet it is,

وه چه شیرینست

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upon your grave, O love so full of longing,

بر سر گور تو ای عشق نیاز آلود

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to stamp my feet.

پای کوبیدن

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Ah, how sweet it is,

وه چه شیرینست

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from you, O burning, death-bringing kiss,

از تو ای بوسه سوزنده مرگ آور

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to turn away.

چشم پوشیدن

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Ah, how sweet it is

وه چه شیرینست

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to break away from you and join with another,

از تو بگسستن و با غیر تو پیوستن

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to close the door upon the sorrow of the heart,

در بروی غم دل بستن

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for paradise is here.

که بهشت اینجاست

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By God, the cloud's shade and the field's edge are here.

بخدا سایه ابر و لب کشت اینجاست

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It is better that you do not think

تو همان به ، که نیندیشی

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of me and my soul-burning pain,

بمن و درد روانسوزم

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for I shall find no rest from pain,

که من از درد نیاسایم

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for I shall not blaze from the flame.

که من از شعله نیفروزم