Happy Shiraz
Hafezحافظ
خوشا شیراز و وضع بی مثالش
Happy Shiraz, and its matchless setting!
خداوندا نگه دار از زوالش
O Lord, keep it from decline.
ز رکن آباد ما صد لوحش الله
A hundred blessings on our Roknabad,
که عمر خضر می بخشد زلالش
whose clear water grants the life of Khizr.
میان جعفرآباد و مصلا
Between Ja'farabad and the Mosalla
عبیرآمیز می آید شمالش
its north wind comes mingled with ambergris.
به شیراز آی و فیض روح قدسی
Come to Shiraz, and the grace of the Holy Spirit
بجوی از مردم صاحب کمالش
seek from its people of perfection.
که نام قند مصری برد آنجا
Who has spoken there the name of Egyptian sugar
که شیرینان ندادند انفعالش
that its sweet ones did not put to shame?
صبا زان لولی شنگول سرمست
O breeze, of that merry, drunken gypsy
چه داری آگهی چون است حالش
what news have you? How does that one fare?
گر آن شیرین پسر خونم بریزد
If that sweet youth should shed my blood,
دلا چون شیر مادر کن حلالش
O heart, let it be lawful to him as mother's milk.
مکن از خواب بیدارم خدا را
For God's sake, do not wake me from my sleep,
که دارم خلوتی خوش با خیالش
for I have a sweet seclusion with that image.
چرا حافظ چو می ترسیدی از هجر
Hafez, since you were afraid of separation,
نکردی شکر ایام وصالش
why did you not give thanks for the days of union?
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بلبلی برگ گلی خوش رنگ در منقار داشت
و اندر آن برگ و نوا خوش ناله‌های زار داشت
A nightingale held in its beak a rose petal of lovely colour,
and with that petal and its song it made sweet, piteous laments.
A nightingale held a rose petal
ستاره ای بدرخشید و ماه مجلس شد
دل رمیده ما را رفیق و مونس شد
A star shone out and became the moon of the gathering,
became friend and companion to our startled heart.
A star shone out
سحر بلبل حکایت با صبا کرد
که عشق روی گل با ما چه‌ها کرد
At dawn the nightingale told its tale to the east wind:
"See what love for the rose's face has done to us!"