[1]  If life were ,to the wine - house ,I would go another time :
Save the service of profligates ,I would do no other work .

[2]   Happy that day ,when ,with weeping eye ,I go
So that ,on the wine - house door ,water of tears I may dash an other time .

[3]   In this tribe with whom ,I am captive divine knowledge is none ,O God a little help ,
Whereby ,my own jewel of existence I may take to an other purchaser .

[4]   If the true Beloved departed and recognised not the right of ancient society .
God forbid that I should go in pursuit of an other beloved .

[5]   If my helper be the circle of the azure sphere ,
Him the true Beloved to hand ,I will bring with an other compass .

[6]   Ease seeketh my heart ,if permit
His bold glance and that cut - purse tress an other time .

[7]   Behold our closed - up mystery that ,as a tale ,they uttered ,
Momently ,with drum and reed ,at the head of an other bazar .

[8]   Momently ,with pain ,I bewail .For ,momently ,the sky ,
For my wounded heart ,maketh device with an other torment :

[9]   Again ,I say Captive in this matter of pain not alone is Hafiz
In this desert of pain overwhelmed ,hath become many an other person .

[1]  Komm' ich noch einmal in's Leben,Geh' ich in die Schenke wieder,Will alsdann nichts anders thun, alsTrunkene bedienen wieder.

[2]  Dreymal fröhlich ist die Stunde,Wo mit thränenvollen AugenIch zur Schenke gehen werde,Wasser auszugießen wieder.

[3]  Herr mein Gott! es haben dieseLeute nicht die kleinste Kenntniß,Meine Edelsteine will ichAndern Käufern bieten wieder.

[4]  Wenn mein Freund von dannen gehet,Alter Bande sich erinnernd,Gott behüt' mich, daß ich sollteAndre Freunde suchen wieder.

[5]  Wenn des blauen Himmels KreislaufMich ein wenig hier beängstigt,Werd' in einem andern ZeitlaufMeinen Freund ich finden wieder.

[6]  Mein Gemüth sucht längstens Ruhe,Wenn nur jenes Schelmenauge,Jene losen SternenlockenSchon vorüber wären wieder.

[7]  Mein verborgenes GeheimnißIst die Fabel aller Leute,Mit dem Pfeile, mit der TrommelGeht es auf den Marktplatz wieder.

[8]  Alle Augenblicke klag' ichUeber Leiden, denn der HimmelZielt auf mich mit jeder Stunde,Daß er mich verwunde wieder.

[9]  Du Hafis bist nicht vereinzelt,Viele sind in dieser Wüste,Viele sind zu Grund gegangen,"Sag' ich zu mir selber wieder.

[1]  If ,to Thy street ,the power of arriving be mine ,
By the fortune of union with Thee ,to foundation arriveth my work .

[2]   From me ,took rest ,those two beauteous hyacinth tresses
From me ,took tranquillity ,those two narcissi eyes tricked with kuhl .

[3]   When ,at Thy door ,without resource ,without gold or force ,I
Have ,in no way ,the path of egress or of ingress .

[4]   I go where I do what I am how Remedy ,I make what
For ,from grief of time's violence ,sorely vexed I am become .

[5]   Battered with ill - fortune ,life ,I obtain
At that moment when ,with the sword of grief for Thee ,slain I become .

[6]   Worse than my heart ,grief for Thee found no place ,
When ,in my straitened heart ,it made its place of alighting .

[7]   Since from the jewel of Thy love ,a great polish hath my heart ,
Verily ,from the rust of vicissitude ,polished it was .

[8]   O soul and heart the true Beloved in Thy presence ,what sin have committed ,
That ,accepted ,becometh not the devotion of me ,heart - bereft

[9]   Hafiz with love's pain ,be content and be silent
Love's mysteries ,reveal not before people of reason .

[1]  Wenn ich so glücklich binZu deinem Dorf zu kommen,So wird der HochgenußAuf sichern Gründen ruhen.

[2]  Von DoppelhyacinthWard mir Geduld geraubet,Und die Ergebung nahmDie doppelte Narzisse.

[3]  Der mittellose MannEntblößt des Gold's und Silbers,Vermag bei deiner ThürNicht aus und ein zu gehen.

[4]  Wohin? was soll ich thun?Und was soll ich beginnen?Der Gram der Zeit hat michIn Traurigkeit versenket.

[5]  Ich ausgezehrter MannErlange neues LebenIm Augenblicke, woMich deine Wimpern morden.

[6]  Dein Schmerz fand's nirgends soWie in dem Herzen wüste,Deßwegen hat er sichIns enge Herz genistet.

[7]  Da deiner Liebe SteinDes Herzens Formen glättet,So ist es spiegelreinVon allem Unglücksroste.

[8]  Was that ich denn vor dirO Herz! O meine Seele!Daß schlichte HuldigungVon dir nicht anerkannt wird.

[9]  Begnüge dich HafisMit Liebesgram und schweige,Entdeck' VerständigenNicht deine stille Liebe.

[1]  For a long time past ,in the tavern of love ,of manifestations ,of glories service in rue love to God ,in manifestations ,and in fearful contemplation I have been doing
In the garment of poverty as a fakir the work of people of fortune those joined to God I keep doing .

[2]   Until that ,into union's snare ,I bring the partridge the true Beloved sweet of gait ,
In my ambush ,expectation of time's opportunity ,I make .

[3]   Perceived not truth's perfume ,our admonisher .Hear thou for this word of truth
In his presence ,do I also utter no calumny ,do I make .

[4]   To the Friend's street ,I go like the swift breeze ,falling and rising ,
And from the basil and the rose ,prayer for assistance ,I make .

[5]   More than this ,our trouble ,the dust of Thy street endureth not
O Idol kindnesses ,Thou didst : by going into effacement the lessening of our trouble to Thee I make .

[6]   The snare of the Path tarlkat is the tress of the Heart - ravisher and the arrow of calamity ,His glance
O heart remember the many precepts of counsel that ,for thee ,I make .

[7]   O Merciful One ,defect - concealing cover the eye of the ill - see - er ,
From these bold deeds ,that ,in the corner of khilvat ,I do .

[8]   In a religious assembly ,Hafiz ,I am in a convivial assembly ,dreg - drinker ,I am
This boldness and expertness behold how ,with different people ,different profession ,I make .

[9]   From the right of God's throne ,the faithful spirit Jibra ,il uttereth Amin
When ,the prayer for the Lord of the country and of religion ,I make .

[10]   O Khusrau from this account ,hope of the height of dignity ,I have
Entreaty for threshold - kissing of thy majesty .I make .

[1]  Es ist schon lang, daß ich in Schenken Den Diener mache, Daß ich als Bettler die Geschäfte Der Reichen mache.

[2]  Bis in die Falle des Genußes Das Rebhuhn rennet, Will ich im Stillen Jagd auf gute Momente machen.

[3]  Der Prediger hat nie vernommen, Den Duft der Wahrheit, Ich sag' es laut, und will daraus kein Geheimniß machen.

[4]  Ich gehe, wie der Ostwind, schwankend Zum Gau des Liebchens, Da müßen Rosen und Jasminen Mir Hülfschor machen.

[5]  Die Erde deines Gaus kann nimmer Die Lasten tragen, Du bist gnädig! nun wir wollen Es leichter machen.

[6]  Ein Netz sind meines Liebchens Locken, Ein Pfeil die Wimpern, Behalte Herz in dem Gedächtniß Mein Lehren-machen.

[7]  O Gnädiger! verhüll' auf immer Dem Aug' des Bösen, Die Heldenthaten, die im Stillen Wir gelten machen. Behüte Gott, daß ich das jüngste Gericht nicht fürchte, Laß morgen geh'n, wir wollen heute Uns lustig machen. Selbst Gabriel, der Himmelshüter Wird Amen sagen, Wenn ich beginn' das Lob der Herrn Der Welt zu machen. O Herr! ich hoffe auf den Gipfel Des Himmelreichs, Das heißt, ich werde deine Schwelle Zum Kußort machen.

[8]  Hafis ist klug in einem Kreis, Im andern trunken, O sieh den Schelm, er weiß den Leuten Es weis zu machen.

[1]  The down the world's up - springing of the true Beloved's cheek ,eclipsed is the moon by which ,
Is a joyous ring ; but path is none out from it .

[2]   The eye - brow the world ,the stage of acquisition of love of the Friend God is the corner stone of the prayer - arch of fortune
There ,thy face rub thy need the degrees of the first and the last world and the ladders of loftiest stages ask from Him .

[3]   O thou that art the draught - drinker the holy traveller of the assembly of Jamshid the murshid ,perfect and excellent thy heart keep pure
For a mirror this is the cup world - viewing the heart of the murshid Alas for it .

[4]   The hypocritical conduct of the men of the monastery abids and the austere ones ,who for deceiving men ,made wailing me ,a wine - worshipper ,made .
Behold this smoke of their hypocritical wailing and sighing black with wine - worshipping became my book by which

[5]   To the Shaitan of grief ,whatever is possible say and do
With the wine - sellers to whom no access is his I have taken shelter from him .

[6]   Saki the luminous lamp of wine on the sun's path keep
Say : the torch of the morning enkindle from it .

[7]   O murshid on the day - record of our deeds ,a little water of thy kindness scatter
Perchance ,the letters of sin ,one can efface with it .

[8]   Hafiz ,who ,the arrangement of the assembly of the lovers straight made ,
The space of this banquet - place be not void of him

[9]   In this fancy ,that a city - beggar hath ,
May it be that ,one day ,the king may make recollection of him .

[1]  Der Freundes Wangen Flaum, Der selbst den Mond ergriffen, Ist zwar ein schöner Ring, Doch hat er keinen Ausweg.

[2]  Der Freundinn Augenbrau'n Sind stets des Glückes Wohnort, Dort reibe deine Stirn', Dort klage deine Nöthen.

[3]  Du Hefentrinker Dschems, O halte rein den Busen, Ein Spiegel ist er, ach! Vor dem sich nichts verstecket.

[4]  Der Zellenmänner Thun Macht mich zum Weinverehrer, Sieh' diesen Rauch nur an, Der meine Schriften schwärzet.

[5]  Sag' zu dem Teufel gram: Thu', was dir nur beliebet, Ich habe mich vor dir Zu Trunknen schon geflüchtet.

[6]  O Schenke, halt' das Glas Als Leuchte zu der Sonne, Und sag': hier zünde an Die Fackel deines Morgens.

[7]  O schütte Wasser aus Auf's Tagbuch unsers Thuns, Wegwaschest du vielleicht Damit der Sünden Zeiten.

[8]  Hafis hat angestellt Der Liebenden Versammlung, Daher sey dieser Platz Nie leer von seinem Daseyn!

[9]  Wird sich der Träumerei'n, Mit der sich Bettler schmeicheln, Wird sich derselben wohl Der Fürst einmal erinnern?

[1]  O mouth ,thou resembleth a casket of pearls
O Lord around thy face ,how fit became the line of a new moon

[2]   Now ,me ,the vain fancy of union with Thee pleasantly deceiveth
Let us see what picture ,sporteth this form of a vain fancy .

[3]   Wine ,give .For ,though black of book of the world ,I became
Hopeless of the grace of the Eternal ,when can one be

[4]   Saki a cup bring and ,me ,forth from khilvat put
So that ,crafty and nothing - earning ,door to door ,I may wander .

[5]   If learned and wise thou be ,let not go four things
Safety ,wine void of alloy ,the Beloved ,and the void place the desert of solitude

[6]   Since time's picture is in no way fixed ,
Hafiz complaint ,make not wine ,let us drink .

[7]   Pure is the cup of the heart in the time of the Asaf of the age ,
Arise and cause me to drink of a cup of wine purer than limpid water .

[8]   Verily ,the country boasteth of him and of his efforts
Lord ever be this rank and this sublimity

[9]   The seat - kindler of the fortune of the mine of pomp and of grandeur ,
The proof of the country and of religion ,is Abu Nasr Abu - 1 - Mu'ali .

[1]  Der du aus finsterer Nacht so freundlich mein Schicksal belächelst, Sage, was will der Hof dort um den leuchtenden Mond?

[2]  Deines Genusses Traum hat mich so lange betrogen, Wie viel Gestalten nimmt noch dein Zauberbild an! Blutigen Herzens bin ich durch sein betrunkenes Auge, In der Liebe folgt Wunder auf Wunder sich nach. Blutig sind Herz und Aug', und Körper und Seele vertrocknet, Dieses kommet mir, jenes der Liebe zu Schuld,

[3]  Bin ich gleich schwarz im Weltenbuche gezeichnet, gieb Wein her! Wer verzweifelt wohl je an der ewigen Huld!

[4]  Schenke bringe das Glas, entreiß' mich dem einsamen Leben, Daß ich von Thüren zu Thür' luftig geschürzet herumgeh'. Billig fand's die Geliebte, mit meinem Blute zu spielen, Molla's saget, was ist Inhalt des Liebefetwa? Reiter, zu was bedarfst du wohl Begleiter und Führer, Findest du einen aus Redschd, gieb ihm Kunde von mir. Nimmer ruhet mein Aug' aus Sehnsucht nach Redschedens Gebirgen, Und mein trübes Herz kämpfet mit großer Beschwerd'. Gott! dir gehöret die Wüste, worinn die Geliebte sich aufhält, Einer Gaselle Blick hat die Gemüther verwirrt.

[5]  Bist du weise und schlau, so thue Verzicht auf vier Dinge, Nämlich auf Ruhe und Wein, Liebchen und Einsamkeit auch.

[6]  Keine einzigen Augenblick ist das Schicksal beständig, Klag' nicht, Hafis, dafür wollen wir trinken jetzt Wein.

[7]  Rein ist das Glas des Gemüths zur Zeit Aßafes, des Weisen, Auf und schenke mir ein von dem lautersten Wein!

[8]  Weit hat sich vergrößert der König durch Herrschaft und Reichthum, Ewig daure, o Herr, ewig die Größe und Macht.

[9]  Sieh' es sitzet hoch auf dem Polster des Glückes des Reiches, Königen, Völkern ein Licht, Abunaßr voll Glanz.

[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 .