[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]  O heart the companion of thy journey ,fortune ,well - wishing ,is for thee enough
The footman of the path ,the breeze of the garden of Shiraz is for thee enough .

[2]   O Darvish from the true Beloved's abode ,again journey not ;
For ,the spiritual walk and the cloister - corner are for thee enough .

[3]   If from thy heart's corner ,a great grief make ambush ,
The fold of the court of the Pir of the Magians protection is for thee enough .

[4]   On the tavern - settle ,sit the cup ,drink
For ,of the world ,this degree of acquisition of wealth and of rank is for thee enough .

[5]   Excess ,seek not easy to thyself ,make work
For the flagon of ruby wine and ,an idol ,beauteous as the moon ,are for thee enough .

[6]   To the ignorant man ,the sky giveth the rein of desire
A man of excellence and of knowledge ,thou art .This very sin is for thee enough .

[7]   The desire for the accustomed dwelling this world and the covenant of the ancient Friend God
With way - experienced way - farers ,asking pardon on account of thy refraining from the journey for thee enough ,

[8]   To the favour and kindness of others ,accustom not thyself .For ,in both worlds ,
The will of God ,and the favour of the king are for thee enough .

[9]   Hafiz J of any other task ,no need is thine
The midnight - prayer and the morning - exercise are for thee enough .

[1]  O Herz, das gute GlückSey als Gefährte dir genug!Der Hauch des Gartens von SchirasSey dir als Bot' genug.

[2]  Derwisch entfern' dich nichtDurch Reisen von des Liebchens Ort,Die Reise in Gedanken sey,Die Zelle dir genug!

[3]  Und stürmt der Schmerz auf dichHer aus des Herzenshinterhalt,So ist des Wirthes Hof für dichAls Zufluchtsort genug.

[4]  Komm' auf den ersten PlatzDes Schenkensoffa's trinke Wein,Denn statt der Ehren und des Gold'sDies zu gewinnen ist genug.

[5]  Verlange nicht zu vielUnd mache selbst dir Alles leicht,Denn eine Flasche voll mit Wein,Ein Mond ist dir genug.

[6]  Der Himmel giebt den ZaumDer Wünsche nur Unwissenden,Du bist gelehrt und tugendhaftDer Sünden ists genug.

[7]  Verlasse dich ja nicht HafisAuf Gnaden Anderer, es istFür beide Welten Gottes Gnad'Des Schahes Gnad' genug.

[8]  Für dich Hafis bedarf es wohlKein überflüßiges Gebet,Des Abends und des Morgens istDein Beten schon genug.

[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]  Times I have said and again I say ,
That ,heart bereft ,not of myself ,have I gone this Path of love

[2]   Behind the pure mirror of the holy traveller's heart me ,they have kept like the parrot
What the Teacher of eternity without beginning said Say I say .

[3]   Whether I be the thorn ,or whether the rose ,there is a sward - adorner God
By whose hand ,as it cherished me ,I grew .

[4]   O friends me ,heart - bereft ,astonied ,censure not
A great jewel I have and the master of vision the jeweller God I seek .

[5]   Although to the wearer of the patched darvish garment ,the drinking of wine ,rose of hue ,is a sin ,
Me ,censure not for with it from off the darvish garment the colour of hypocrisy ,I wash .

[6]   From another place cause is the laughing and the weeping of lovers of God
In the night through union with the Beloved I sing ; in the morning - time through separation I moan .

[7]   To me ,Hafiz spake saying The dust of the tavern - door smell not
Say Censure not for the fragrant musk of Khutan ,I smell .

[1]  Oftmals hab' ich's gesagt, und abermal will ich es sagen, Ich Verlorener geh' nicht von mir selber den Weg.

[2]  Einem Papagey gleich wird mir der Spiegel gehalten, Was der Ewige sagt, plaudere lallend ich nach.

[3]  Gebe man mir, was es sey; Ich esse so Disteln als Rosen, Meine Nahrung gemäß, wachs' und gedeihe ich groß.

[4]  Schmähet mich nicht, und wißt, es ist die Perle mein eigen, Und ich suche nur einen Besitzer für sie.

[6]  Lachen und Weinen der Liebenden hat so mancherlei Gründe, Abend lach' ich vor Lust; Morgens bewein' ich mein Loos.

[7]  Riech' nicht, sagte Hafis, o riech' den Staub nicht der Schenke. Sag' ihm: schmähle nicht, denn Moschus entduftet dem Staub.

[1]  messenger of the true ones sincere lovers news of our Beloved utter :
To the bulbul ,song - singing the lover the state of the rose the Beloved utter .

[2]   Confidants lovers of the chamber of affection ,are we grief ,suffer not
To the kind friend ,mention of the Friend the Beloved make .

[3]   When those two tress - tips dashed together ,
O breeze come ,what mystery those two tress - tips had ,utter .

[4]   Every one who said The dust of the Friend's door is kuhl ,
To him say Exhibited in our eye ,this matter was this ,to another say .

[5]   The Sufi ,who prohibiteth us the tavern ,
Say In the presence of my Plr ,this matter ,utter .

[6]   If ,again ,by that door of fortune ,passing be thine ,
After the service of attendance ,and the presentation of prayer ,say ,

[7]   Though we be bad ,us ,bad regard not
Sovereign - like ,the tale of the beggar's sin utter .

[8]   To this fakir ,the letter of that great one ,read
To this beggar ,the tale of that King ,utter .

[9]   When ,from the snare of His tress ,He scattered hearts on the dust ,
To that our miserable heart what chanced ,out by way of love ,utter .

[10]   Soul - cherishing ,is the tale of the Lords of ma'rifat
In respect of it ,a mystery ask and a tale ,come and utter .

[11]   Hafiz if to His assembly thee ,the path of access they give ,
Wine ,drink and ,for God's sake ,the abandoning of hypocrisy utter .

[12]   Last night ,at my bewailngi ,the bird of the sward wept
O breeze at last knowest thou what passed say .

[1]  Bote der Gnaden, gieb Kunde vom Freunde, Singe von Rosen der Nachtigall vor.

[2]  Säume dich nicht, denn wir sind die Vertrauten, Sage dem Freunde die Rede des Freunds.

[4]  Jeder, der saget: ihr Staub ist ein Balsam, Sage dies Wörtlein vor unserem Aug'.

[5]  Sage dem Frommen, der trinken verbiethet, Dieses erkläre du uns vor dem Wirth. Wenn von der Kanne der Fromme verführt wird, Sage: schenk' ein, mit dem Glas in der Hand.

[6]  Geh'st du vorbei an der Thüre des Glückes, Sprich nach entrichtetem Gruß und Gebet: Arme und Reiche vermischet die Liebe, König der Schönheit! den Bettler sprich an!

[7]  Bin ich auch böse, so schilt mich nicht deßhalb, Fürstlich verhehle des Bettlers Vergeh'n.

[8]  Lies dem Verarmten des Mächtigen Schreiben, Sprich zu dem Bettler von Königsgewalt. Da die Geliebte die Herzen verstreut hat, Sage dem Sinn, was in Lüften geschah.

[9]  Als die zwei Spitzen der Locken sich schlugen, Ha! wie ich brannte, verkünd' es, o Wind!

[10]  Worte der Weisen sind Nahrung der Seele, Gehe und frag' und erzähle uns dann.

[11]  Kommst du, Hafis, in des Fürsten Gesellschaft, Laß die Verstellung, und trinke den Wein.

[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 .