[1]  To the true Beloved I said O Sultan of lovely ones show pity to this poor stranger
He said In the desire of his own heart ,loseth his way the wretched stranger .

[2]   To Him ,I said Pass awhile with me .He replied Hold me excused .
A home delicately nurtured one ,what care beareth he for such griefs of the poor stranger

[3]   To the gently nurtured one ,asleep on the royal ermine ,what grief ,
If ,should make the couch of thorn and ,the pillow of the hard stone ,the poor stranger .

[4]   O thou in the chain of whose tress ,are the souls of so many lovers ,
Happily ,fell that musky mole ,on thy coloured cheek ,so strange .

[5]   In the colour of the moon - like face ,appeareth the reflection of wine of love or of unity
Like the leaf of the ruddy Arghavan on the surface of the wild red rose ,strange .

[6]   Strangely hath fallen that ant - line the down around thy face
Yet ,in the picture gallery of Arzhang the musky line of shading is not strange .

[7]   I said O thou tress of night - hue the attraction of grace the evening shelter of the stranger
In the morning time ,beware ,if his need bewail this stranger .

[8]   He said Hafiz at my beauty friends are in the stage of astonishment
Far from wonder it is not ,if shattered and wretched sitteth the stranger .

[1]  Ich sprach zu dem Schah der Schönen:Erbarme dich dieses Fremden,Er sagte: wohl mögen im SinnVerirren sich die Fremden.

[2]  Ich sagte: Verweil' ein wenig,Er sprach: halt' mich entschuldigt;Was kümmert uns Kinder vom HausDer Gram von solchen Fremden!

[3]  Wer königlich hingebettetAuf Hermelinen lieget,Der kennet nicht Kissen aus Stein,Das Dornenbett des Fremden.

[4]  O du, in den Ketten dessenSo viele Freunde schmachten,Es schickt sich das Maal zum Gesicht'Gar schön gleich einem Fremden.

[5]  Auf deinem Gesicht erscheinetDer Widerglanz des Weines,Wie Purpurblüh lieblich erscheinetAuf der Narziß’ der Fremden.

[6]  Es scheinen die feinen HaareAuf deinen Wangen fremde,Doch sollte auf Sina's GemäldenDer Haarstrich nicht befremden.

[7]  Ich sprach zu dem Abend: schwarz istDein Haar, dem Fremde huldigen,Mit Rechte beklagen sich dannZur Morgenzeit die Fremden.

[8]  Es sprach zu sich selbst der DichterBekannte werden irre;So minder dann darf dich befremdenDer Gram und Schmerz der Fremden.

[1]  O true Beloved display Thy face and to me speak ,saying From life thy heart up take
Say Before the candle ,with soul ,the fire of the moth kindle .

[2]   At our thirsty lip ,look and from it water withhold not
To the head of thy slain one thy lover come and him ,fronVthis dust of contempt up take .

[3]   The darvish ,abandon not ,if his be not silver and gold
In grief for thee ,this crystal tear ,silver reckon and his ruddy face ,red gold take .

[4]   Twang the harp and with it be content .If aloe - wood fuel be not ,what fear
My love ,the fire my heart ,the aloe - wood fuel and my body ,the censer ,take .

[5]   Into sama' ,come off from thy head ,cast the khirka ; and dance
If not ,into the corner of solitude go and on thy head ,our khirka of hypocrisy take .

[6]   Off from thy head ,draw the wool garment of beggary and the wine of purity ,drink
Silver ,play spend money and ,with gold ,into thy embrace one of silver bosom a beloved one take .

[7]   Say ,the Friend God is my friend ,then be both worlds my enemy
Then say ,fortune becometh recreant and all the men of the surface of the land ,army taker .

[8]   O Friend the true Beloved for going away ,make no desire with us ,a moment be
On the rivulet's bank formed of my tears joy ,seek and ,in thy hand ,the cup take .

[9]   Gone from my bosom ,this fire of love and water of tears of my heart and eye ,take
My hue ,yellow with grief my lip ,dry with thirst my bosom wet with tears take .

[10]   Hafiz the banquet ,adorned make and to the admonisher ,speak ,
Saying : My assembly behold and ,the path of abandoning the pulpit take .

[1]  Sag' mir zeigend die Wang':Greife aus dem Gemüthe das Herz,Zu dem Schmetterling sag':Wirf dich statt in die Gluth in's Gemüth.

[2]  Meinem trockenen MundSey ein Tropfe von Wasser gegönnt,Zum erschlagenen MannKomm' und heb' ihn auf von dem Staub.

[3]  Flieh den Bettelnden nicht,Weil er Silber und Gold nicht besitzt;Silber weinet sein Aug'Seine Wangen sind gelb wie das Gold.

[4]  Schlag' die Laute und sing';Zag' nicht wenn es an Aloe fehlt,Lieb' ist Gluth, und das HerzDas Gewürz und das Rauchfaß der Leib.

[5]  Singe, wirf das GewandWeg und lärme mit Jubel und Tanz,Oder flieh' in ein Eck,Mit der Kutte den Kopf eingehüllt.

[6]  Zieh das Ordenskleid aus,Deinen Rebensaft zieh' dafür ein,All dein Silber verspiel',Silberbusen erkauf' für das Gold.

[7]  Günstig sey dir der Freund,Beiden Welten verfeinde dich dann,Günstig sey dir das Glück,Heere mögen dann wider dich ziehn.

[8]  Fliehe nicht so geschwind,Einen Augenblick weile mit mir,An dem Ufer des BachsNimm den Becher mit mir in die Hand.

[9]  Wärst du wirklich entflohn.O dann wäre von flammender GluthMeines Herzens und Aug'sNaß die Brust, und vertrocknet der Mund.

[10]  Bring' Gesellschaft Hafis!Muthig sage zum Prediger dann:Die Versammlung schau' anHurtig steig' von der Kanzel herab.

[1]  In the morning for the perfume of the rose ,I kept going into the rose - garden ;
So that ,like the bulbul heart - bereft ,remedy for my brain ,I might make .

[2]   At the face of a rose ,red of hue ,I gazed ,
That ,in the night of darkness ,shone with a luminosity like the lamp :

[3]   Of her beauty and youth ,so proud ,
That ,from the heart of the bulbul of a thousand notes ,repose she kept

[4]   In envy ,the beautiful narcissus let loose water night - dew from her eye
In passion ,the tulip planted a hundred streaks stains in her soul and heart :

[5]   In reproof ,the lily extended her tongue like a sword
Like the man of two women ,the anemone opened her mouth .

[6]   Sometimes ,like the wine - worshipper ,in the hand ,a goblet :
Sometimes ,like the Saki of the intoxicated ,taken in the hand ,a glass .

[7]   The joy of youthful pleasure ,plunder like the rose ,reckon
For ,O Hafiz to the envoy is naught save what is brought the message

[1]  Vom Duft des Rosenbeets gelock'tGieng ich heut' früh in Gärten,Um Nachtigallen gleichMein trunknes Hirn zu heilen.

[2]  Ich sah mit unverwandtem BlickDer Rose in die Augen,Die in der DämmerungWie eine Lampe flammte.

[3]  Sie war auf ihre Schönheit stolzUnd stolz auf ihre Jugend,Weil sich das Herz Bülbül'sIhr ganz ergeben hatte.

[4]  Die liebliche Narziße schloßMit Sehnsucht auf das Auge,Die Tulpen brannten sichAus Neid ein Maal in Busen.

[5]  Die Lilien verlängertenDer Zunge Schwerdt zum Schnupfe,Die Anemone sprachLeis wie ein Ohrenbläser.

[6]  Bald hielt ich Flaschen in der HandGleich wahren Weinverehrern,Bald nahm ich wie der Schenk'Der Trunkenen den Becher.

[7]  Benütze die Gelegenheit,Die Zeit der Lust und Jugend,Hafis braucht ausser demPropheten keine Botschaft.

[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 .