Last night I saw the angels

دوش دیدم که ملائک در میخانه زدند

Last night I saw the angels knocking at the tavern door;

گل آدم بسرشتند و به پیمانه زدند

they kneaded the clay of Adam and cast it in the wine-measure.

ساکنان حرم ستر و عفاف ملکوت

The dwellers of heaven's sanctuary of veil and chastity

با من راه‌نشین، باده مستانه زدند

drank the wine of the drunken with me, a sitter by the road.

آسمان بار امانت نتوانست کشید

The sky could not carry the burden of the trust;

قرعه کار به نام من دیوانه زدند

they cast the lot of the task in the name of me, the madman.

جنگ هفتاد و دو ملت همه را عذر بنه

Excuse the war of the seventy-two sects, all of them:

چون ندیدند حقیقت، ره افسانه زدند

since they did not see the truth, they took the road of fable.

شکر ایزد که میان من و او صلح افتاد

Thanks be to God that peace has fallen between me and Him;

صوفیان، رقص‌کنان، ساغر شکرانه زدند

the Sufis, dancing, raised the cup of thanksgiving.

آتش آن نیست که از شعله او خندد شمع

Fire is not that flame at which the candle laughs;

آتش آن است که در خرمن پروانه زدند

fire is what they set to the harvest of the moth.

کس چو حافظ نگشاد، از رخ اندیشه نقاب

No one has drawn the veil from the face of thought as Hafez has,

تا سر زلف سخن را، به قلم شانه زدند

since first they combed the curls of speech with the pen.