[1]  If the dust of the sole of my idol's foot give aid
With it on the tablet of vision ,a dusty line whereby my vision may be increased I will draw

[2]   Overwhelmed in desire of Thy embrace I became and my hope is
That ,through the violence of the wave of my tear ,me to reach to the shore ,it the wave may cause .

[3]   If in desire of my life ,His order reach me ,
That very moment ,like the candle ,in a moment ,my life a sacrifice for Him I surrender .

[4]   To - day ,from fidelity to me ,turn not away Thy head and think
Of that night ,when ,through grief ,my hand in prayer ,I uplift .

[5]   For the consolation of lovers ,Thy two tresses ,
A great covenant ,gave ; and my rest ,took .

[6]   O breeze murshid me ,a fragrant waft from that cup of wine of divine love bring :
For ,from the grief of wine - sickness temptations of the world me convalescence ,that perfume giveth .

[7]   If the Friend establish not the proof of the base - coin of my heart ,
From my eye ,in His path ,current coin tears I reckon .

[8]   From me ,dusty ,shake not in pride thy skirt .For ,after death ,
From this door ,it is not possible that my dust even the whirling wind can take .

[9]   Hafiz since His ruby lip is as the dear soul to me ,
That moment when to the lip of the true Beloved I bring my soul ,a lasting life mine will be .

[1]  Meine Worte haben gelobt die Locken,Deßhalb hauchen sie nun Gerüche süß wieDüfte des Moschus.

[2]  Wenn der Staub der Sohlen der Freundinn zu mir kommt,Will ich auf der Tafel des Aug's mit StaubeLinien zeichnen.

[3]  Ich versank in deiner Umarmung Wünschen,Doch ich hoffe an das Gestade aus derFluth mich zu retten.

[4]  Fodert mir ihr Schmetterling ab die Seele,Will ich wie die Kerze im AugenblickeOpfern die Seele.

[5]  Ziehe nicht zurück vom Gemüth die Treue,Denk der Nacht, wo ich zum Gebet die Hand ausSchmerzen erhoben.

[6]  Deine schwarzen Locken versprachen alleHerzen zu bewahren, und meines habenSie mir geraubet.

[7]  Ostwind bring' mir einen Geruch vom Weine,Denn mich heilen diese Gerüche von demHefen des Schmerzens.

[8]  Wenn sie keinen Werth für das Herz bestimmet,Will ich auf dem Weg statt der baaren MünzeStreuen die Augen.

[9]  Wisch' nicht ab den Staub von dem Saum des KleidesBin ich einstens Staub, so vermag von dir keinWind mich zu wehren.

[1]  Now ,the good counsel of the time I see in that ,
That ,to the wine - house ,my chattels I betake and happy sit .

[2]   The cup of wine ,I take and ,from the hypocrite ,far I go
That is ,of the world's creation ,only pureness of heart ,I choose .

[3]   Save the goglet and the book the Kuran no companion nor friend may be mine
So that the traitor - watchers of the world ,seldom ,I may see .

[4]   Above the people ,my head in freedom ,like the lofty cypress ,I uplift ,
If it be possible that ,away from the world ,my skirt ,I may pluck .

[5]   Since ,in the stained khirka ,rectitude I boasted
Ashamed of the Saki's face and of the coloured wine ,am I .

[6]   My straitened chest and its load of grief .Alas
Not the man porter for this heavy load ,is my grieved heart .

[7]   If I be the tavern .profligate or if the city - guardian ,
These ,that Thou seest ,I am and than these ,less I am .

[8]   The slave of the Asaf of the age am I my heart afflicted ,keep not
For ,if I boast of the sphere ,revenge it seeketh .

[9]   On my heart is the dust of tyranny .O God approve not
That dulled should be my love - filled mirror the heart

[10]   In fancy for the tip of Thy musky tress ,my heart and soul consumed
If for Thee credence be necessary ,behold my musky fragrant breath

[1]  Was mir am dienlichsten scheint bei diesen gefährlichen Zeiten, Ist in das Wirthshaus zu ziehn, lustiger Dinge zu seyn.

[2]  Mit dem Glas in der Hand, bin ich dort ferne von Heuchlern, Rein bewahr' ich mein Herz in dem Getümmel der Welt,

[3]  Keinen Freund verlang' ich mir dort, als das Buch und die Flasche, Daß ich vergeße der List, daß ich vergeße des Trugs.

[4]  Stolz wie Cypreßen erheb' ich mein Haupt hoch über die Menschen, Wenn mein Vorsatz gelingt mich zu entziehen der Welt.

[5]  Selbst in bemackeltem Kleid hab' ich noch mit Gutem geprahlet, Aber ich stehe dafür Schenken und Trunknen zum Spott.

[6]  Ach! der engen Brust, und ach! der Bürde der Leiden Solche Bürden des Grams trägt nicht das siechende Herz.

[7]  Sey' ich ein Trunkner vom Platz, und sey von der Stadt ich der Hüter, Sieh' ich bin wie ich bin, manchesmal schlechter vielleicht.

[8]  Gräme dich nicht mein Herz, ich bin der Sklav des Wesires, Klagte den Himmel ich an, ständ' er als Rächer mir bei.

[9]  Staub der Leiden verhüllt mein Herz, Gott soll es bewahren! Niemals seyen getrübt spiegelnde Herzen so rein.

[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]  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 .

[76]   Give wine for ,the secret to my ear ,the harp hath brought and said
Happily pass life and ,hear this bowed Pir the harp

[77]   Hafiz by the independence of profligates ,I conjure thee drink wine ,
So that ,thou mayst hear the song of the Singer ,God the Independent One .

[78]   Into the sea of self and self - praise ,I am fallen .Bring
Wine ,so that freedom from self and self - praise me ,it may give .