Blessed the time the beloved returns

زهی خجسته زمانی که یار بازآید

How blessed the time when the beloved comes back,

به کام غمزدگان غمگسار بازآید

when the comforter returns to grant the grieving their wish!

به پیش خیل خیالش کشیدم ابلق چشم

Before the troop of her image I have led out the piebald steed of my eyes,

بدان امید که آن شهسوار بازآید

in the hope that the royal rider will return.

اگر نه در خم چوگان او رود سر من

If my head does not roll into the crook of her polo stick,

ز سر نگویم و سر خود چه کار بازآید

I will say no more of heads: what use would mine be then?

مقیم بر سر راهش نشسته‌ام چون گرد

I sit always at the head of her road like dust,

بدان هوس که بدین رهگذار بازآید

longing that she will come back along this way.

دلی که با سر زلفین او قراری داد

A heart that made a pact with the tips of her curls,

گمان مبر که بدان دل قرار بازآید

do not imagine that heart will ever find rest again.

چه جورها که کشیدند بلبلان از دی

How many cruelties the nightingales endured from winter

به بوی آن که دگر نوبهار بازآید

in the hope that spring would come again!

ز نقش بند قضا هست امید آن حافظ

Hafez has hope from the painter of destiny

که همچو سرو به دستم نگار بازآید

that, like a cypress, the beloved will come back into my arms.