[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]  Openly ,I speak ; and of my own utterance ,heart - happy am I
Love's slave ,I am and of both worlds ,free am I .

[2]   The bird of the holy rose - bed paradise am I .Explanation of separation from paradise what shall I give ,
And into this disaster's snare - place ,how I fell

[3]   The angel ,t was and loftiest paradise was my abode
Into this ruined cloister this world me ,Adam brought ,

[4]   The shade of the Tuba tree ,and the heart - seekingness of the Hur ,and the marge of the pool Kausar
All in desire of the head of Thy street ,passed from my mind .

[5]   On my heart's tablet is naught save the straight alif of the Friend's stature
What may I do Me ,recollection of other letter the teacher the murshid gave not .

[6]   Recognised the star of my fortune ,astrologer none
O Lord of mother - earth ,beneath what natal star ,born was I

[7]   Since ,in love's wine - house ,beringed enslaved I became ,
Momently ,cometh anew a great grief saying Welcome .

[8]   The little man pupil of my eye drinketh the heart's blood in grief Tis fit
For ,to the liver lobe the darling of man ,why gave I my heart

[9]   With the tress - tip ,pure of tear ,make the face of Hafiz
If not ,my foundation ,this torrent momently flowing will take .

[1]  Erstens sag ich es laut, und freue mich dann des Gesagten.Ich bin der Liebe Sklav, frey in dem Leben, im Tod.

[2]  Ich bin ein Vogel der höheren Welt, was soll ich erklären,Wie in dieses Netz, gählinger Weile ich fiel.

[3]  Einstens war ich ein Engel, und wohnte hoch in dem Himmel,Vater Adam hat mich in die Wüste geführt.

[4]  Doch den edenischen Baum, die Fluth Selsebils und die Huris,Alles, alles vergaß ich aus Erinn'rung an Dich.

[5]  In dem Herzen steht nur die Eins des Freundes geschrieben,Was zu thun? ich ward sonst nichts vom Meister gelehrt.

[6]  Noch hat kein Sternenkundiger mir mein Schicksal enträthselt,Herr! o sage mir, was ist das Loos der Geburt?

[7]  Als ich ein treuer Sklave die Schenken der Liebe besuchte,Brachte jeglicher Tag neue Beschwerden für mich.

[8]  Blut beströmet den Stern des Aug's, und dieses wohl billig.Warum gab ich mein Herz anderen Herzen wohl hin!

[9]  Trockne Hafisens Gesicht mit den Spitzen der Locken des Haars ab,Sonsten führet der Strom ganz mein Gebäude hinweg.

[1]  Permit us to pass by the highway of the tavern
For ,for a draught ,in need of this tavern - door ,we are all .

[2]   On the first day of eternity without beginning when ,of profligacy and of love ,we boasted ,
Its condition was that ,no path save the Path of this way of love we tread .

[3]   The place this world where the masnad of Sulaiman goeth to the wind of destruction
Pleasant ,it is not if we suffer grief .Best ,that we drink wine .

[4]   Let us see ,it may be that ,in his girdle ,one's hand one can fix
Seated in the heart's blood ,like the red ruby ,are we .

[5]   Admonisher to us make not the counsel of the distraught .For we ,
With possessing the glorious dust of the Friend's street ,look not at Paradise .

[6]   Since by sama' the Sufis are in the mystic state of the dance ,
We also by the sorcery of love - play a hand uplift in rapture

[7]   From thy draught sprinkling earth gained the rank of the mighty ruby
Before Thee ,less than the dust are we helpless lovers because ,to us Thou inclinest not

[8]   Hafiz when there is no path to the turret of the palace of union ,
Our head ,with the dust of the threshold of this door ,let us take .

[1]  Laßt uns vorbeigehn, an der Schenke Thür, Denn wir bedürfen all' ein wenig Rest von Wein.

[3]  Wo man Dschemschid's und Salomon's gedenkt. Dort seyd nicht traurig, dorten trinket Wein.

[4]  Um an den Freund zu legen meine Hand, Bin ich in Blut getaucht wie der Rubin.

[5]  O Prediger ermahne Trunkne nicht. Der Staub des Freund's ist uns den Himmel werth.

[7]  Dein Hefen macht aus bloßem Staub Rubin. Weh! daß du mich verachtest wie den Staub?

[8]  Hafis! kein Weg führt zum Pallast der Lust, Wohlan begnüge dich mit Schwellenstaub.

[1]  Last night ,to the door of the wine - house ,I went ,sleep stained
The khirka wet of skirt ,and the prayer - mat ,wine stained

[2]   The magian boy of the wine - seller ,cry - making ,came
He said Awake ,O wayfarer ,sleep stained .

[3]   Washing and washing ,do then ,to the tavern ,proudly move
So that ,by thee ,this ruined cloister become not' stained

[4]   In desire for those sweet of mouth beloved ones how long makest thou
The jewel of thy soul with the melted ruby the bloody tear stained

[5]   In purity ,pass the stage of old age and make not ,
The honour - robe of old age ,with the splendid dress of youth ,stained .

[6]   Pure and clean ,be and ,from nature's well ,come forth
Giveth not purity water ,earth stained .

[7]   I said O soul of the world not a defect is it ,the rose - book
If ,in the spring season ,it become with pure ruddy wine bestained .

[8]   In this deep sea of love those acquainted with love's path ,
Were drowned and were not with water stained .

[9]   He said : Hafiz to friends ,thy jest and subtlety boast not ;
Alas for this thy grace ,with varied forms of reproach bestained .

[1]  Ich gieng zur Schenke gestern, Vom Schlafe ganz befleckt, Befeuchtet war die Kutte, Der Teppich ganz befleckt.

[2]  Es kam ein Schenkenknäblein Und sagte mir mit Spott: Es ist schon Zeit: Erwache O du vom Schlaf befleckt!

[3]  Vor allem andern wasch' dich, Dann komm' zur Thür' herein, Es würde ja die Schenke Von dir sonst auch befleckt.

[4]  Wie lang wird noch aus Sehnsucht Nach einem süßen Mund Mit flüssigem Rubine Der reine Geist befleckt?

[5]  Geh', wo die Alten wohnen, Mit Reinigkeit vorbei, Das Kleid des Alters werde Von Jungen nicht befleckt.

[6]  Sey rein, steig' in die Höhe, Vom Brunnen der Natur, Denn nimmer schmeckt das Wasser Als rein, das Staub befleckt.

[7]  Ich sprach zu meinem Liebchen: Ist es nicht Schand' und Spott, Daß in den Lenz die Rose Sich so mit Wein befleckt?

[8]  Erfahrene der Liebe Sind zwar in diesem Meer Hinab zum Grund gefahren, Und wurden nicht befleckt.

[9]  Sie sprach: Hafis, die Räthsel Verkauf' den Freunden nicht! O Schade! dieser Milde Mit solchem Grimm befleckt.

[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 .