[1]  The splendour of youth's time the murshid's assembly again belongeth to the garden the holy traveller's existence
The glad tidings of divine glories of the rose the Beloved reacheth the bulbul the lover sweet of song .

[2]   O breeze if again thou reach the youths of the meadow the murshid's disciples
Convey our service of prayer to the cypress ,the rose ,and the sweet basil the murshid's disciples

[3]   If the young magian the khalifa ,showing the true Path wine - seller ,display such splendor of explanation
In thanks I will make myeye - lash the dust - sweeper of the door of the wine - house his dwelling

[4]   O thou that drawest ,over the moon of thy face the chaugan of purest ambergris the black tress
By concealing thy grace make not distraught of state ,me of revolving head .

[5]   This crowd that laugheth and carpeth at those lovers of God drinking the wine dregs of the wine of the love of God I fear
They will ,in the end ,ruin their Faith .

[6]   Be the friend of the men of God for ,in Nuh's ark the existence of the people of God
Was a little dust humbleness that purchased not the deluge the empire of the world for a drop of water .

[7]   Forth from the house of the sphere ,go and bread ,seek not .
For ,in the end ,this dark cup of avarice slayeth the guest .

[8]   To him ,whose last sleeping - place is with two handfuls of earth the grave
Say Thine what need ,to exalt the turrets to the sky

[9]   My moon of Kan'an my soul the throne of Egypt the rank of perfection the world of souls is thine
The time is that time when thou shouldst bid farewell to the prison of the body ,or of the world

[10]   Hafiz drink wine of love practise profligacy the concealing of secrets and be happy grieve not ,and grieved be not but ,
Like others ,make not the Kuran the snare of deceit .

[11]   Not even one mystery of the mysteries of the Absolute existence mayest thou know ,
If head bewildered of the circle of possibility ,thou be .

[12]   The land of liberty ,and the corner of contentment is a treasure ,
That ,by the sword ,the Sultan cannot attain .

[1]  Die Gärten blühn im frischen Reiz der JugendBulbul hört von der Rosen Freudenkunde.

[2]  O Morgenwind kömmst du zu jungen Wiesen,Grüß mir Basilikon, Cypreß, und Rose.

[3]  Wenn mich des Wirths Knabe süß liebkoset,So weih' ich meine Wimpern ihm zur Bürste.

[4]  Du der mit Ambraschlägeln Ballen spielestSchlag mich Geschlagenen nicht mehr zurücke.

[5]  Ich fürchte, jene, die der Trinker spotten,Verlieren ihren Glauben selbst in Schenken.

[6]  Sey Männern Gottes Freund, es ist ein StäubchenIm Schiffe Noahs, dem die Fluth nicht schadet.

[7]  Begehr' kein Brot, verlaß der Erde Gasthof!Der Erde Wirth ermordet seine Gäste.

[8]  Was brauchts Palläste die zum Himmel reichenFür jenen der zuletzt im Staube schlummert?

[9]  O Kanaan's Mond! dein ist der Thron AegyptensZeit ists den finstern Kerker zu verlassen. Ich weiß nicht was du willst mit deinen Locken:Dein Moschushaar auf diese Art verwirrend.

[10]  Hafis trink Wein, betrinke dich, sey froh,Mach nicht zuletzt zum Fallstrick den Koran.

[1]  O beloved from separation from thee ,I consume
Separation from the beloved our soul - calamity became .O Lord the calamity ,turn .

[2]   On the bay courser of the sky ,the moon displayeth splendour :
So that ,to an end ,it may come ,to mighty Rakhsh ,thy foot turn .

[3]   Thy love - lock ,dishevel that is ,against the tress - like hyacinth ,
About the sward ,fragrance like the morning breeze beturn .

[4]   Forth for the plunder of reason and of faith ,intoxicated gracefully move
On thy head ,aslant in pride place the cap and ,on the body ,the kaba beturn .

[5]   O light of the eye of the intoxicated in the essence of expectation ,I am
The wailing harp and the cup ,that one ,the harp play and this one ,the cup beturn .

[6]   When ,on thy cheek ,time writeth the happy line ,
O Lord from our friend ,the ill - decree ,turn .

[7]   Hafiz from lovely ones ,thy lot ,save that portion that thou hast is naught
If as to it contentment be not thine ,fate's decree ,turn .

[1]  Ich brenne von der Trennung, Wend' mein Gesicht von Leiden ab, Ein Unglück ist die Trennung, O wende, Herr! von mir das Unglück ab.

[2]  Sieh, wie der Mond erglänzet Auf grünem Gaul des Himmels-Plans, Damit er flieh' nach Westen. Wend' dich von seinem Glücke ab.

[3]  O staube aus die Locken; Trag' Hyacinthen selbst zum Trotz Des Wohlgeruches Rauchfaß Dem Ost gleich Fluren auf und ab.

[4]  Damit Vernunft und Glauben Von Liebenden geplündert sey, Erscheine du betrunken, Und wirf so Kleid als Haube ab.

[5]  O Augenlicht der Trunknen, Ich harre deiner voll von Begier, O schlag' die Laute, oder Gieb uns den Becher auf und ab.

[6]  Es schrieb der Lauf der Zeiten Auf deinen Wangen schöne Schrift, O Herr! von meinem Freunde, Wend' böse Schriften von ihm ab.

[7]  Hafis, du darfst von Schönen Erwarten nicht ein anders Loos, Wenn dies dir nicht behaget, So wend' den Spruch des Schicksals ab.

[1]  On the day of judgment ,thee the sky happily aided
Let us see thanks ,how thou mayst offer ; in thanks ,what thou mayst bring .

[2]   That one who fell and whose hand ,God seized ,
Say So that thy hand ,God may seize on thee ,be it that the grief of the fallen thou mayst suffer .

[3]   In love's street ,kingly rank they purchase not
Here make confession of service and claim of attendance .

[4]   Saki with the reward for tidings of joy enter by my door ,
So that ,one moment ,forth from my heart ,grief thou mayst take .

[5]   In the highway of rank and of lordship is many a danger ,
That is best that by this acclivity ,light of burden ,thou pass .

[6]   Together are the Sultan and the thought of the army ,and the passion for treasure ,and the pomp of the crown
Together are the darvish ,and tranquillity of heart ,and the corner of kalandardom .

[7]   One sufi - istic word ,I will utter permission is there
O light of the eye peace is better than war and dominion .

[8]   To the limit of thought and spirit is the success of desire
From the king ,the liberal gift from the grace of God ,aid .

[9]   Hafiz from thy face ,the dust of poverty and ot contentment wash not
For ,better is this dust than the work of alchemy .

[1]  Es stand der Himmel dir wohl bey Am Tag des Streites, Wie preisest du ihn wohl dafür, Wie zeigest du dich dankbar?

[2]  Der Mann, der fällt, und welchen Gott Dann bei der Hand ergreifet, Dem sage, dir gebühret es, Gefallene zu trösten.

[3]  Man kauft nicht in dem Liebesgau Die Glorie des Schahes, Bekenne dich zum Herrendienst, Zum frommen Sklavendienste.

[4]  O Schenke komm' zur Thür' herein Mit deinen Liebeswimpern, Dann geht der Gram der ganzen Welt Hinaus von meinem Herzen.

[5]  Es liegen auf der Größe Pfad Gar mancherlei Gefahren, Weit besser ist es, daß du leicht Dich auf den Weg begebest.

[6]  Der König denkt auf Stadt und Heer, Auf Kronen und auf Schätze, Derwische denken nur auf Ruh', Auf einen stillen Winkel.

[7]  Ich sage dir ein frommes Wort, Schenkst du mir nur Erlaubniß, Mein Augenlicht weit besser ist's Im Frieden seyn, als kriegen.

[8]  Es steht bei deinem Muth und Sinn Die Wünsche zu erreichen. Du brauchest nur des Schahes Gunst, Und dann die Hülfe Gottes.

[9]  Wasch' die Genügsamkeit Hafis Nicht ab von deinen Wangen, Denn dieser Staub ist besser als Der wahre Stein der Weisen.

[1]  God ,I praise for the justice of the great Sultan
Ahmad bin Shaikh Uvais bin Hasan Ilkhani .

[2]   Khan bin Khan ,Shahinshah of Shahin - shah - descent
That one ,whom ,if thou call the soul of the world 'tis well .

[3]   Confidence in thy fortune bringeth he who hath seen and he who hath not seen
Excellent O thou that art worthy of such grace of God .

[4]   If ,without thee ,the moon ascend ,it in two halves they dash
The fortune of Ahmad Muhammad and the miracle of a Holy one God

[5]   Heart from king and beggar ,the splendour of thy fortune ravisheth
Far be the evil - eye ,for both soul thou art ,and also the beloved thou art .

[6]   Turk - like ,the forelock arrange .For ,in thy fortune ,is
The liberality of a Khakan and the energy of a Chingiz Khan .

[7]   Though apparently far ,we are ,to thy recollection the goblet ,we drink
For ,in the spiritual journey ,distance of stage is none .

[8]   Not a rose - bud of ease blossomed from my Persian clay
Excellent the Tigris of Baghdad and the fragrant wine .

[9]   The lover's head that was not the dust of the Beloved's door ,
From the labour of head - revolvingness ,when is freedom his

[10]   O morning breeze the dust of the Beloved's path ,bring
That ,luminous with it ,the eye of his heart ,Hafiz may make .

[11]   Time consider plunder to that degree that thou canst
O soul the out - come of life is only this moment if thou knowesfr .

[12]   The desire - giving of the sphere hath life in barter ,
Strive that ,from fortune ,the justice of ease thou mayst take .

[13]   The counsel of lovers ,hear and out from the door of joy come
For all this is not worth the occupation of a transitory world .

[14]   Before the zahid ,boast not of profligacy .For one cannot utter
To the physician ,not the confidant ,the state of a hidden pain .

[15]   Gardener when hence I pass ,be it unlawful to thee ,
If ,in my place ,a cypress other than the beloved thou plant

[16]   The jar - shatterer knoweth not this value that to the sufi ,
Is a household chattel like a pomegranate ruby .

[17]   Thou goest and ,the people's blood ,thy eye - lashes shed
O soul fiercely impetuously thou goest fear is ,behind ,thou wilt remaim .

[18]   O sweet mouth with the prayer of the night - risers ,strive not
In the shelter of the one ineffable name of God is the seal having the quality of a Sulaiman .

[19]   Aside from the glance of Thy eye ,my heart ,I kept .But ,
Thy eyebrow ,bow - possessor ,taketh the heart by its forehead .

[20]   O brothers compassion .Went my precious Yusuf ,
For grief for whom ,wonderful in wretchedness I beheld thestate of the old man Y'akub of Kin'an .

[21]   The wine's delight will slay the penitent zahid
O sage do not a deed ,that bringeth penitence .

[22]   One day ,by my door ,enter ,so that ,with joy ,the hand I may clap ;
Saying : Verily ,joined to me is luminosity as a guest .

[23]   With kindness ,tranquillise Hafiz's heart ,
O Thou ,whose beauteous tress - coil is the assembly - place perfection of dispersion

[24]   O idol ,stony of heart if of me careless thou be ,
My own state ,I will utter before Asaf the second .

[25]   O true Beloved Thy well - wisher ,I am ,and this I know that Thou knowest
For ,both the un - seen ,Thou seest ; and also the un - written by fate Thou readest .

[26]   In the adoration of Adam ,the angel made resolve of thy ground - kiss ,
For ,in Thy beauty ,something he found more than the way ,. human .

[27]   Thy tress's curl is now ,in God's name ,the collectedness of hearts
Be safety thine ,from that breeze that exciteth dispersion

[28]   From fortune ,I have the hope that his girdle I may loose
O sky for God's sake ,for me loose the knot frown from the forehead .

[29]   O true Beloved dishevel Thy tress and ,to sport and to dancing ,bring the Sufi people of the world
That ,from every patch of his ragged garment ,thousands of idols of hypocrisy Thou mayst scatter .

[30]   The lamp - kindler of our eye is the breeze of the tress of lovely ones
Lord to this gathering smoo .th state of the tress be not grief for the breeze of dispersion

[31]   Of the mystery of the lover and of the Beloved ,what gaineth the reproacher
The non - seeing eye especially seeth not a secret mystery .

[32]   To be vexed with fellow way - farers ,is not the action of a work - knower
The difficulty of the stage ,endure in memory of a time of ease .

[33]   Alas that pleasure of night - sitting up that passed swiftly like the morning breeze
O heart the value of union ,thou knowest ,only when behind in separation thou remainest .

[34]   The solving of the work of desirous ones is in that heart - binding eye - brow
For God's sake ,a moment with towards us unloose the knot frown from thy forehead .

[35]   Hafiz thee ,the fancy of the yoke of His tress fascinates
See ,so that the ring of impossible fortune ,thou shake not .

[36]   People spake ,saying In beauty a second Yusuf thou art
When ,well ,I looked ,verily better than that I had heard thou art .

[37]   Sweeter than that which ,with sweet smile ,they say thou art ,
Khusrau of the lovely ones for ,the Shirin of the age ,thou art .

[38]   To the folded rose - bud ,thy mouth ,one cannot compare
Never is the rose - bud with this narrow - mouthness .

[39]   If ,on account of thy stature and gait ,the moving cypress remained behind in its place ,
Move thou .For thou hast surpassed the moving cypress in movingness .

[40]   A hundred times Thou saidest : From this mouth ,thy desire I give
Like the noble ten - tongued lily ,why art Thou all a tongue

[41]   Thou saidest Thy desire ,I will give thy life ,I wilt take
I fear my desire ,Thou givest not and my life Thou wilt take .

[42]   Through the shield of my life ,Thy sick ,languishing eye causeth to pass the poplar arrow
The eye sick ,who hath seen with so strong a bow

[43]   O true Beloved like the worthless tear from the eye of man ,him Thou easiest ,
Him ,whom a moment ,away from Thy sight ,Thou drivest .

[44]   Away from before Thyself ,Thy own grief - stricken Hafiz ,drive not
For ,through love for Thy face ,he gave sacrificed heart ,faith ,and youth .

[45]   In the path of love to Thee ,like the pen ,a foot out of his head Hafiz made ,
It ,one moment ,like a letter out of kindness ,why readest Thou not

[46]   Breeze of the morning of happiness for that trace that thou knowest ,
To a certain one's street ,pass at that time that thou knowest .

[47]   The footman of the chamber of mystery ,thou art and on the head of the Path ,is my eye
By manliness ,hot by order ,urge in that way ,that thou knowest .

[48]   Say : From my hand passed my feeble soul .For God's sake ,
From Thy ruby lip soul - refreshing ,give that that Thou knowest .

[49]   O true Beloved these few words I wrote ,in such a way that the stranger hath not known
Them by way of kindness ,do Thou also read in such a way that Thou knowest .

[50]   On Thy girdle ,gold - woven ,hope how may I not establish
O idol in that waist ,is a subtlety that Thou knowest .

[51]   With us ,the image of Thy slaying sword is the tale of the thirsty one and of water whereto he desireth to reach
Thy own captive ,Thou seizest .Slay in such a way that Thou knowest .

[52]   Hafiz in this matter ,one are Turki and Tazi Arabian
Love's tale ,relate in every tongue language that thou knowest .

[53]   Two friends holy travellers good of understanding ,and of old wine a quantity ,two mans ,'
A little leisure ,and a book ,and a sward - corner .

[54]   For this ,and the next ,world I give not this state
Though ,of carpers momently ,fall upon me

[55]   Every one who ,for the world's treasure ,gave the treasure of contentment ,
Sold ,the precious Yusuf of Egypt for a very paltry sum .

[56]   Come ; for not less becometh the amplitude of this workshop the world
By the austerity of one like thee or ,by the profligacy of one like me .

[57]   On the day of events of death with cheering wine ,'tis necessary to tell one's grief
For ,on none ,is reliance at a time like this .

[58]   Happy of heart ,in a corner sit and behold
That none keepeth in mind so strange a calamity .

[59]   In the hand of the mean the watcher I keep seeing my idol the beloved
Thus ,the vengeful sky recognised the right of service of one like me .

[60]   In the mirror of the Picture - establisher God the hidden form ,behold
If ,for thee out of the country of contentment ,desire maketh a native land .

[61]   O heart strive thou for patience .For God delivereth not
A seal - ring so precious as patience to the hand of an evil one .

[62]   From the fierce wind of vicissitude ,one cannot see ,
That ,in this sward ,hath been even a red rose ,or a wild white rose .

[63]   From this simum blast of lust that ,by the garden - borders ,passed ,
Wonder that from the heart of love's lust the colour of a rose remaineth ,or the perfume of a jessamine .

[64]   I have heard that ,for dogs ,thou appointest a collar
On Hafiz's neck ,why placest thou not a rope

[65]   Hafiz in this calamity ,ruined became time's temper
Where is the thought of a physician or the judgment of a Barhaman

[66]   Drink the cup of the wine of unity of a man
So that ,by it grief's root ,up from the heart ,thou mayst pluck .

[67]   Expanded ,keep the heart ,like the cup of wine
Head closed how long like a large jar

[68]   When ,from the jar of selflessness ,a ritl thou drinkest ,
Less of thyself voluntarily thou boastest of self .

[69]   Like the humble and worthless stone at thy foot be ,not like the water of the cloud glorying in sublimity
All colour of deceit ,thou mixest and wet of skirt lust - stained thou art .

[70]   To wine ,bind the heart ,so that ,like a man ,
The neck of hypocrisy and of piety thou mayst shatter .

[71]   Arise ,and ,like Hafiz ,an effort in the service of the Pir of tarikat make so that ,perchance ,
Thyself ,at the true Beloved's foot ,thou mayest cast .

[72]   Tis morning ; and ,droppeth hail from the cloud of the winter - month Bahman
The requisites of the morning cup ,prepare and give a cup of one ' man .'

[73]   The blood red wine of the cup ,drink for lawful is its blood
In the work of the cup ,engaged be ; for 'tis a work fit to be done .

[74]   If ,at dawn ,thee ,wine - sickness give headache ,
Verily ,best ,that the forehead of the vintner ,thou shatter .

[75]   Saki at hand to give the cup be for ,in ambush for us ,is grief
Minstrel so that grief may not reach us keep this very path of song that thou singest .

[76]   Give wine for ,the secret to my ear ,the harp hath brought and said
Happily pass life and ,hear this bowed Pir the harp