Hafez · Ghazal 162 · The rose has come
خوش آمد گل وز آن خوش‌تر نباشدکه در دستت بجز ساغر نباشد
زمان خوش‌دلی دریاب و در یابکه دایم در صدف گوهر نباشد
غنیمت دان و می خور در گلستانکه گل تا هفته دیگر نباشد
ایا پرلعل کرده جام زرینببخشا بر کسی کش زر نباشد
بیا ای شیخ و از خم‌خانه ماشرابی خور که در کوثر نباشد
بشوی اوراق اگر هم‌درس ماییکه علم عشق در دفتر نباشد
ز من بنیوش و دل در شاهدی بندکه حسنش بسته زیور نباشد
شرابی بی‌خمارم بخش یا ربکه با وی هیچ درد سر نباشد
من از جان بنده سلطان اویسماگر چه یادش از چاکر نباشد
به تاج عالم آرایش که خورشیدچنین زیبنده افسر نباشد
کسی گیرد خطا بر نظم حافظکه هیچش لطف در گوهر نباشد
The rose has come, and Hafez asks you to notice it. The pearl is not always in the shell, and the bloom will not wait another week, so whatever gladness is open to you now deserves to be received with both hands. He also counsels generosity: if your cup is full, share it with someone whose cup is empty. Trust the kind of beauty that needs no ornament, and the kind of knowing that is learned by the heart rather than from books. This is a moment to enjoy, not to postpone.
The rose has come, and nothing is sweeter than this:
that there is nothing in your hand but the cup.
Seize the time of gladness, grasp it,
for the pearl is not always in the shell.
Count it a gift and drink wine in the rose garden,
for the rose will not be here another week.
O you who have filled the golden cup with ruby,
be generous to one who has no gold.
Come, O shaykh, and from our wine-house
drink a wine not found in Kawsar.
Wash the pages, if you study with us,
for the knowledge of love is not in any book.
Listen to me, and bind your heart to a beauty
whose loveliness does not depend on ornament.
Grant me, O Lord, a wine without the after-ache,
that brings with it no trouble to the head.
With all my soul I am the servant of Sultan Oveys,
though he may not remember his servant.
By his world-adorning crown, even the sun
is not so worthy of a diadem.
Only one finds fault with the verse of Hafez
who has no grace in his own nature.