[1]  Again ,from the branch of the straight cypress ,the patient bulbul
Shouted glad tidings ,saying From the face of the rose ,far be the evil eye

[2]   O rose beloved in thanks that ,to thy heart's desire ,thou blossomedest ,
With bulbuls ,the distraught lover ,display no pride .

[3]   Against the hand of thy absence ,no complaint ,I make
So long as long absence is none ,no great pleasure giveth the presence of the beloved

[4]   If ,joyous and gladsome in pleasure and joy others be ,
For us ,the grief of love for the idol the true Beloved is joy's source .

[5]   Hopeful of Hur and of palaces above if the Zahid be ,
For us ,the wine - house is the palace and the beloved ,the Hur .

[6]   To the sound of the harp ,drink wine and suffer no grief .If any one
Speak to thee saying : Wine ,drink not for 'tis sin say : The forgiver is God .

[7]   Hafiz complaint of grief of separation ,why makest thou
In separation ,is union in darkness ,light

[1]  Horchet die Nachtigall sing't nun wieder vom Zweig' der Cypreße.Böses Auge sey fern, fern von der Rose Gesicht!

[2]  Rose, aus Dank dafür, daß du bist der Schönheit SultaninnZeig' in der Liebe dich nicht gegen die Nachtigall stolz.

[3]  Klagen will ich fürwahr! nicht über deine Entfernung,Wer die Entfernung nicht kennt, kennt nicht der Gegenwart Glück.

[4]  Andern ist Freude und Lust der Quell des fröhlichen Sinnes,Mir ist der Liebe Gram Quelle von Freuden und Lust.

[5]  Hoffen die Frommen auf Köschk' und Mädchen im himmlischen Garten,Hab' ich hienieden schon Mädchen und Köschk in der Schenk'!

[6]  Trinke Wein bei der Laute Getön und wenn sie dir sagenEs ist verboten, so sag': Gott ist es, welcher verzeiht!

[7]  Sage Hafis was klagst du über die Trennung?Dann aus Finsterniß kömmt Licht und aus Trennung Genuß.

[1]  Friends in the rose - season ,that best that for pleasure we strive
This the word of the Plr of the Magians the murshid is .With soul ,let us listen .

[2]   In none ,is liberality that we may have even a groat wherewith to drink wine passeth joy's time
Its remedy is this ,for wine ,the prayer - mat ,we sell .

[3]   Tis a pleasant air ,joy - giving .O God send
One of gracious form ,to whose face ,wine ,rose of hue ,we may drink .

[4]   One of skill Zuhra is the organ - player of the sky ,highway - robber
Of this grief ,bewail we not how and clamour we not ,why

[5]   Into tumult of blossom came the rose and its lustre ,we dashed not with wine ,
Therefore ,with the fire of regret and of desire ,we clamour .

[6]   From the tulip's cup ,illusory wine we draw
Far ,the evil eye For without the minstrel and wine ,distraught are we .

[7]   Hafiz to whom can one utter this wonderful state For ,we
Are bulbuls that ,in the rose - season ,silent are .

[1]  Freunde die Tage der Rosen sind da, Besser ist's sich zu erfreuen. Höret so spricht der erfahrne Wirth, Höret mit Seele die Worte:

[2]  Keiner erbarmet Anderer sich, Zeiten der Freude verstreichen, Wahrlich ich kenne nicht besseren Roth, Kaufet Euch Wein für den Teppich.

[4]  Höret! der Himmel was orgelt er auf? Stiehlt er nicht ehrlichen Leuten? Sollen wir dieses mit Schweigen ansehn, Sollen hierob wir nicht schreyen?

[5]  Sehet! die Rose wie ist sie entflammt, Wein ist uns nöthig zum Löschen. Deßhalb entbrennen wir selber vor Lust, Flammen empor vor Begierde.

[6]  Denn im Gedanken nur trinken wir Wein, Schlürfen denselben aus Tulpen; Ferne die Neider! denn ohne den Wein, Ohne den Sänger behagt Nichts.

[7]  Welchem Vertrauten erzählst du Hafis, Dieses erstaunliche Wunder, Daß du wahrhaftig die Nachtigall bist, Schweigend in Tagen der Rosen.

[1]  Evil of any we utter not inclination to the injustice of any we make not
Black ,the face of any one and blue ,our own religious garment ,we make not ,

[2]   Evil ,it is to show in deficiency or in excess the defect of the poor man ,or of the rich man
The counsel is that evil work at all ,we do not .

[3]   On the book of knowledge ,fallacious writing like worldly sages we write not
Confounded with the page of magic ,God's mystery ,we make not .

[4]   If with dignity ,the draught of profligates ,the king drink not .
By way of truth with splendour ,work of his we do not .

[5]   In the sight of way - farers ,we happily urge the world of our time
Thought of the precious black steed ,or of the golden saddle ,we make not ,

[6]   The sky shattereth the bark of the Lords of skill
Best ,that ,on this suspended ocean the sky reliance we make not .

[7]   If an envious one spake evilness and thereon a friend grieved ,
To the friend say Happy ,be for to the fool ,the ear of attention we make not .

[8]   Hafiz if the enemy utter falsehood as regards him ,exception we take not
If ,with truth ,he spake contention with the speech of truth ,we make not .

[1]  Zu schmählen sind wir nicht gesinnt, Noch Böses sonst zu machen, Wir wollen nicht die Nahmen schwarz, Nicht blau die Kutten machen.

[2]  Die Großen und die Mönche viel Und wenig schmählen taugt nicht. Es ist das Beste doch zuletzt Nichts Böses thun und machen.

[3]  Wir werden nicht der Weisheit Buch Mit unserm Kiel durchstreichen. Und zu Geheimnissen nicht gar Der Gaukler Künste machen. Wenn mir der Mönch den Wein versagt, So ist es wahrlich besser, Daß wir mit unsrem reinen Sinn Ihm keine Hoffnung machen.

[4]  Und trinkt der Schah mit Langmuth nicht Den Hefen der Betrunknen, So werden wir auch kein Geschäft, So wie sichs ziemet, machen.

[5]  Ey, laß uns tummeln unser Roß Vor aller Augen aufrecht, Wir wollen uns um Roß und Zaum Nicht graue Haare machen.

[6]  Vom Himmel ziehet man das Schiff Der Tugend selbst herunter, Weit besser ists auf dieser Welt Nicht Hoffnung sich zu machen.

[7]  Sagt dir der Neider Böses nach, Und zürnen dir die Freunde, So sag': sey froh, wir wollen nicht Die Dummen hören machen.

[8]  Hafis! und fehlte selbst dein Feind, Wir wollen ihn nicht tadeln, Und hat er Recht, so können wir Ja nichts dagegen machen.

[1]  If ,kind on our state the heart of that Beloved had been ,how well it would have been
For ,if kind like that ,He had been ,not like this our state would have been .

[2]   I would have said The breeze of the Friend's tress ,what is it worth
If ,for every hair - tip ,mine a thousand lives had been .

[3]   O Lord the order of our heart - happiness ,less how would it have been ,
If ,from the evil of time ,its the mark of safety had been

[4]   If ,me ,head exalting and dear ,time had kept ,
That dust of His threshold ,my throne of honour would have been .

[5]   Would to God forth from the screen ,like a tear - drop ,He had come ,
So that ,on my two eyes ,His order current would have been .

[6]   If the Path ,love's circle had not closed ,
Not like a point ,in the midst ,heart - bereft Hafiz would have been .

[7]   Would to God me ,the trace to His street ,some one had given ,
So that ,of the garden and the rose - garden illusory delights independence would have been .

[1]  Ey, was wär' es, wenn das Herz Meiner Freundinn freundlich wäre, Meine Lage wär' nicht so, Glaubt mir's wenn sie anders wäre.

[2]  Was, so sprach ich, wären werth Meiner Freundinn Locken, Wenn an jeder Spitze Haars Tausend Eine Seele wäre.

[3]  Was der Werth des Staubes sey, Würde dann erst gänzlich klar seyn, Wenn des Lebens Kapital Ewighin verzinset wäre.

[4]  Wenn die Welt mich werth geschätzt Und in hohen Ehren hielte, Ist's doch sicher, daß mein Thron Ihrer Thüre Schwelle wäre.

[5]  Käm' heraus vom Schleierzelt, Meiner Freundinn, wie die Thränen, O so wüßt' ich, daß sie dann Meiner Augen Fürstinn wäre.

[6]  Wenn der Weg zum Liebeszirkel Nicht der Welt verschlossen wäre, Glaube mir, daß dann Hafis Dennoch stets im Mittel wäre.

[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 .