In the beginning, Your beauty's ray
Hafezحافظ
در ازل پرتو حسنت ز تجلی دم زد
In pre-eternity the ray of Your beauty breathed forth in radiance;
عشق پیدا شد و آتش به همه عالم زد
love appeared, and set fire to the whole world.
جلوه ای کرد رخت دید ملک عشق نداشت
Your face showed itself and saw the angel had no love;
عین آتش شد از این غیرت و بر آدم زد
from this jealousy it turned to very fire and struck at Adam.
عقل می خواست کز آن شعله چراغ افروزد
Reason wished to light its lamp from that flame;
برق غیرت بدرخشید و جهان برهم زد
the lightning of jealousy flashed and threw the world into turmoil.
مدعی خواست که آید به تماشاگه راز
The pretender wished to enter the spectacle of the secret;
دست غیب آمد و بر سینه نامحرم زد
the hand of the Unseen came and struck the stranger's breast.
دیگران قرعه قسمت همه بر عیش زدند
Others cast the lot of their portion all on pleasure;
دل غمدیده ما بود که هم بر غم زد
it was our grief-worn heart that cast it, too, on grief.
جان علوی هوس چاه زنخدان تو داشت
The lofty soul longed for the well of your chin;
دست در حلقه آن زلف خم اندر خم زد
it laid its hand on the ring of that curl, coil upon coil.
حافظ آن روز طربنامه عشق تو نوشت
Hafez wrote the joy-book of your love on that day
که قلم بر سر اسباب دل خرم زد
he drew the pen through every means of a carefree heart.
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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!"