A cup or two at dawn

یک دو جامم دی سحرگه اتفاق افتاده بود

Yesterday at dawn I happened to have a cup or two,

وز لب ساقی شرابم در مذاق افتاده بود

and wine from the saqi's lip had touched my tongue.

از سر مستی دگر با شاهد عهد شباب

In my drunkenness I wanted to return to the beauty of my youth,

رجعتی می‌خواستم لیکن طلاق افتاده بود

but the divorce had already been pronounced.

در مقامات طریقت هر کجا کردیم سیر

In the stations of the Path, wherever we travelled,

عافیت را با نظربازی فراق افتاده بود

safety and gazing on beauty had parted ways.

ساقیا جام دمادم ده که در سیر طریق

Saqi, give cup after cup, for on the journey of the Path

هر که عاشق‌وش نیامد در نفاق افتاده بود

whoever did not come as a lover had fallen into hypocrisy.

ای معبر مژده‌ای فرما که دوشم آفتاب

O reader of dreams, give me good news, for last night the sun

در شکرخواب صبوحی هم وثاق افتاده بود

had shared my room in the sugar-sleep of the dawn draught.

نقش می‌بستم که گیرم گوشه‌ای زان چشم مست

I was imagining I might take a corner of that drunken eye;

طاقت و صبر از خم ابروش طاق افتاده بود

my strength and patience were worn out before the arch of her brow.

گر نکردی نصرت دین، شاه یحیی، از کرم

Had Shah Yahya, Helper of the Faith, not acted generously,

کار ملک و دین ز نظم و اتساق افتاده بود

the affairs of kingdom and faith would have fallen out of order.

حافظ آن ساعت که این نظم پریشان می‌نوشت

Hafez, in the hour he was writing this scattered verse,

طایر فکرش به دام اشتیاق افتاده بود

the bird of his thought had fallen into the snare of longing.