[1]  Although ,apparently ,the slaves of the King are we ,
By weeping and wailing Kings of the country of the morning when prayers are answered are we .

[2]   Treasure in the sleeve and empty ,the purse ,
The cup ,world - displaying ,and the dust of the Path of tarikat are we .

[3]   Sensible of the presence of God and intoxicated with pride ,
The ocean of unity and yet like the drowned one of sin are we .

[4]   The mistress of fortune ,when she glanceth ,
The mirror of her moon - like face ,are we .

[5]   Every night ,of the King of vigilant Fortune ,
The care - taker of the diadem and of the crown are we .

[6]   Say Our blessing reckon plunder
For in sleep thou art and ,in the eye sentry - place are we .

[7]   The King ,Mansur ,is acquainted with this ,that we
Wherever the face of resolution ,we place

[8]   Make for enemies the shroud of blood and
Give to friends the kaba of victory .

[9]   Not before us ,may be the hue of deceit ;
Either ,the ruddy tawny lion ; or the black deadly snake ,are we .

[10]   The debt of due to Hafiz say that they should give back to him
The debt thou hast confessed witnesses ,are we .

[1]  Wiewohl wir des Kaisers Diener sind, So sind wir doch Kaiser des Morgentrunks,

[2]  Im Aermel der Schatz! der Sack geleert! Der Spiegel der Welten! der Staub des Wegs!

[3]  Gesättigt von Lust, berauscht mit Stolz, Versink ich in Sünden in Einigkeit!

[4]  So oft mich der Freund des Glücks liebkos't, So spiegelt in mir er sein Mondgesicht,

[5]  An jeglichem Abend flehen wir Als Hüter der Krone des Schahs zu Gott.

[6]  O rechne mein Streben dir zum Glück, Ich war indessen du schlafen liegst,

[7]  Der siegende Schah, er weiß es wohl, Wohin ich gewendet des Muths Gesicht

[8]  Den Feinden aus Blut ein Leichentuch! Den Freunden das rühmliche Kleid des Siegs!

[9]  Ich berge mich nicht in Heuchelei, Ich sag', daß ich Schlange und Löwe bin,

[10]  O gebet Hafisen doch zurück Den Glauben, gestehet den Diebstahl ein.

[1]  Displayed from the garden border hath become the diadem of the Sultan ,the rose the true Beloved
O Lord to the cypress and the jessamine disciples and lovers of the Path its arrival happy be

[2]   In his own proper place ,happy was this imperial sitting the Sultan ,rose
Since now in his own proper place ,every one sitteth .

[3]   To Sulaiman's seal - ring ,news of the happy conclusion give ,
Whereby ,short the hand of power of ahriman the enemy the ism - i - a'zam made .

[4]   Be prosperous to eternity without end ,this house the world from the door of which ,
Every moment ,with the perfume of mercy ,the breeze of felicity the words of the perfect murshid bloweth

[5]   The majesty of Pashang's son ,Afrasiyab ,king of Turan and his world - seizing sword ,
In all king - chronicles ,the tale of the assembly is .

[6]   Obedient to thee ,became beneath the saddle ,the chaugan - steed of the sphere ,
O royal horseman since to the field of sport thou hast come ,the ball strike .

[7]   The stream of the country is the water lustre of thy sword
The tree of justice ,plant thou : the root of ill - wishers ,tip - pluck .

[8]   After this if ,despite the perfume of thy sweet nature ,it Iran blossometh not ,
From Iran's plain ,the musk - pod of the musk of Khutan the well - being and welfare of Iran ariseth and departeth

[9]   Expectation of sweet splendour ,the corner - takers recluses make ,
Aslant in pride place the cap and ,from thy face ,the veil up - pluck .

[10]   In love - playing with my own reason ,I consulted .He said Hafiz drink wine
O Saki according to the word of the trusty adviser reason wine give .

[11]   O breeze to the Saki of the banquet of Atabak the praised one prefer the request ,
That ,from that cup ,gold scattering ,me ,a draught he may give .

[1]  Die Krone der Fürstinn, Der Rose zeigte sich auf Fluren. Es sey den Cedern und Jasminen Gesegnet die Ankunft.

[2]  Nun stehet in Wahrheit Der Kaiserthron an seinem Orte, Es setze sich ein Jeder auf den Ihm eigenen Platz hin.

[3]  Dem Ringe Dschemschidens Gieb von dem guten Ende Kunde, Der große Name, der ihn zeichnet, Bezwingt Ahrimanen.

[4]  Es blühe beständig Das hohe Haus, das du bewohnest, Von dessen Thürenstaub ein Lüftchen Erbarmender Huld weht.

[5]  Die Größe des Sohnes Peschengs, sein Schwert, das Welten zwinget, Ist durch des Schahrame's Geschichten Zur Sage geworden.

[6]  Den Renner des Himmels, Bezäumtest du mit deinem Zügel, O Reiter, du bist auf dem Rennplatz, Nun schlage den Ballen.

[7]  Es strahlen die Reiche Durch deines Säbels Glanz und Wasser, O pflanze du den Baum des Rechtes, Entwurzle die Bösen.

[8]  Was ist es zu wundern? Wenn du so süß und milde duftest, Und wenn die Düfte Chotens hauchen, Iredschische Steppen.

[9]  Die Winkelbewohner Erwarten deine Schmeicheleien, Entblöß' den Kopf von deiner Mütze, Zerreiße den Schleier.

[10]  Ich fragte die Klugheit: O trinke Wein, Hafis! so sprach sie, O Schenke! reiche uns den Becher, Dem Rathe zu folgen.

[11]  Ostwind dem Schenken Beim Fest der Atabegen melde, Daß er von jenem goldnen Glase Den Hefen mir gebe.

[1]  The beloved said Forth ,thou wentest for the spectacle of the new crescent moon
Thine ,be shame of my crescent moon eye - brows that are more glorious go

[2]   'Tis a life time since ,of the crowd of captives of our tress ,thy heart was
Of keeping the side of thy friends ,careless be not .

[3]   For the blackness of the friend's tress ,sell not the 'itr of reason
For ,there ,they sell a thousand musk - pods of musk for half a barley - corn .

[4]   In this old sown - place this world the seed of fidelity and of love ,
At that time becometh manifest when arriveth the time of reaping .

[5]   Saki wine bring for to thee ,a mystery ,I will tell ,
Of the mystery of the old star ; and of the wandering of the new moon .

[6]   The end of every month ,the waning form of the moon giveth trace ,
Of the end of the diadem of Siyamak ,and of the abandoning of the crown of Zhu .

[7]   Hafiz the threshold of the Pir of the magians is the fortress of fidelity
To him ,read the lesson of love's tale and from him counsel hear .

[1]  Sie sprach: du giengst hinaus den neuen Mond zu schauen, Als ob er nicht von meinen Brau'n beschämet würde.

[2]  Sie sprach: dein Herz ist längst in meinem Haar gefangen, Nicht sorglos sey deßhalb, die Freunde zu bewahren.

[3]  Verkauf' nicht den Verstand um's schwarze Haar der Freundin, Ihr gelten tausend Moschusblasen nicht ein Körnlein.

[4]  Es schießt empor der Treue und der Liebe Saamen. Sobald der Duft von dem Genuß der Freundinn wehet.

[5]  O Schenke bring' den Wein, ich will dir Etwas sagen, Vom alten Glücksgestirn, vom Lauf des neuen Mondes.

[6]  Es lehrt der neue Mond am Aufgang jeden Monats Die Krone Siameks und Schews sey längst verschwunden.

[7]  Hafis! beim alten Wirth ist alter Treue Zuflucht, Lies ihn, und hör', was er von Liebe lehret.

[1]  If to the voice of the bulbul and of the turtle - dove ,wine thou drink not ;
Thee ,how may I cure The last remedy is the cautery .

[2]   Of the colour and perfume of the spring season ,lay up treasure
For keep arriving in pursuit the highwaymen ,autumn and winter .

[3]   When in spring - time her veil the rose up - lifted ; and the bird shouted hu ,hu
From the hand ,the cup put not .Wherefore makest thou the reproachful cry hai ,hai

[4]   The pomp of sovereignty and of command ,how hath it stability
Of the throne of Jamshid and of the diadem of Kay ,only a word hath remained .

[5]   Treasure - possessing ,by the inheritors is kufr ,
According to the word of the minstrel ,and of the Saki and to the decision of the drum and of the pipe .

[6]   Time giveth naught that ,back again ,it taketh not
From the mean ,generosity seek not ; for his existence is no thing worthless

[7]   On the hall of the garden of the Abode the threshold of the perfect murshid they have written
Who purchased the world's favour ,to him ,woe

[8]   Generosity remained not ; my word of counsel I close ; wine is where
To the joy of the soul and the spirit of Hatim Tai ,it give .

[9]   God's perfume of liberality the miser perceiveth not .Hafiz come :
The cup take liberality ,practise on me ,the responsibility that saved thou shall be

[1]  Bei Taubengegirr und Bülbülengesang Wenn nüchtern du bleibest, wo ist denn Arzney!

[2]  O sammle des Frühlinges Farben und Duft. Es kommen die Räuber des Winters hernach.

[3]  Enthüllt sind die Rosen, es klagen die Vögel. O gieb aus den Händen das Glas nicht. Ey, Ey! Du hast in der Hand die belebende Fluth, O trinke; denn alles belebet die Fluth.

[4]  Wann hatte Regierung und Herrschaft Bestand? Von Salomons Throne blieb nur das Gerücht,

[5]  Für Erben zu scharren ist Sünde fürwahr. Beim Laute der Schenken, der Trommeln des Rohrs.

[6]  Nichts schenket die Zeit, was sie wieder nicht nimmt, Was Niedrige geben, ist niedrig und schlecht.

[7]  Es stehet geschrieben am himmlischen Thor Weh dem, der vom Schicksal betrügen sich läßt.

[8]  Freigebigkeit giebt's nicht, drum drehet das Wort, Und trinket mit Wein die Gesundheit Hatems.

[9]  Es sieht auf des Geizigen Duft nicht der Herr, Ergreife den Becher, Hafis, auf mein Wort.

[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 .