In the mountain's curtain, who was weeping, cried helplessly after rising from a single cloud.

Mir Taqi Mir contrasts two types of tears. The first type is the dramatic, performative sorrow—the crying done for show, like someone mourning loudly in the mountains. But the second is the natural, involuntary grief, which rises effortlessly, like a cloud shedding rain. The couplet suggests that true, authentic sorrow is not the dramatic display, but the spontaneous, unavoidable ache that simply *is*.