Hafez · Good news: the east wind has returned
مژده ای دل که دگر باد صبا بازآمدهدهد خوش خبر از طرف سبا بازآمد
برکش ای مرغ سحر نغمه داوودی بازکه سلیمان گل از باد هوا بازآمد
عارفی کو که کند فهم زبان سوسنتا بپرسد که چرا رفت و چرا بازآمد
مردمی کرد و کرم لطف خداداد به منکان بت ماه رخ از راه وفا بازآمد
لاله بوی می نوشین بشنید از دم صبحداغ دل بود به امید دوا بازآمد
چشم من در ره این قافله راه بماندتا به گوش دلم آواز درا بازآمد
گر چه حافظ در رنجش زد و پیمان بشکستلطف او بین که به لطف از در ما بازآمد
This is one of the happiest openings in the Divan: good news, the breeze returns, the hoopoe flies home from Sheba. Something or someone you thought had gone from you may find its way back, not because you forced it but by the road of faithfulness. You have waited at the edge of the road listening for the caravan bell; your patience has been heard. If there was a quarrel or a broken promise, notice how the poem ends: grace answers with grace. Meet what returns with open hands rather than old accounts, and let the tulip's wounded heart be healed.
Good news, O heart: the east wind has come back again;
the hoopoe of glad tidings has returned from Sheba.
Raise once more, bird of dawn, your song of David,
for Solomon the rose has come back upon the wind.
Where is a knower who understands the lily's tongue,
to ask why it went away and why it has returned?
God-given grace has shown me kindness and favour,
for that moon-faced idol has come back by the road of faithfulness.
The tulip caught the scent of sweet wine from the breath of dawn;
it bore a brand upon its heart, and came back hoping for a cure.
My eyes were left waiting on the road of this caravan
until the camel-bell's sound came back to the ear of my heart.
Though Hafez knocked at the door of grievance and broke his vow,
see the beloved's grace: in kindness, came back through our door.