These two questions, as well as being surprisingly difficult, are also surprisingly interesting. Translators of Rumi's poetry have used a
lot of poetic licence:
there are entire
websites dedicated to discussion of English translations which differ quite largely from the meaning in the original Persian.
Here is the poem "Holy Thursday" by William Blake:
Is this a holy thing to see,
In a rich and fruitful land?
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurious hand.
Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so
many children poor?
It is a land of poverty!
...
The opening of Chapter 7 of The Count of Monte Cristo describes a meeting between Villefort and his father Noirtier, on which a servant apparently attempted to eavesdrop. The passage (translation from Chapman & Hall 1846 with my emphasis) reads as follows:
M. Noirtier – for it was, indeed, he...
