Love of you, the sapling of wonder

عشق تو نهال حیرت آمد

Love of you became the sapling of wonder;

وصل تو کمال حیرت آمد

union with you became the perfection of wonder.

بس غرقه حال وصل کآخر

How many drowned in the state of union, who in the end

هم بر سر حال حیرت آمد

came back again to the state of wonder.

یک دل بنما که در ره او

Show me one heart that, on His road,

بر چهره نه خال حیرت آمد

has not had wonder set as a mole upon its face.

نه وصل بماند و نه واصل

Neither union remained, nor the one who reached it,

آنجا که خیال حیرت آمد

there where the thought of wonder came.

از هر طرفی که گوش کردم

From every side I listened,

آواز سؤال حیرت آمد

the sound of the question that came was wonder.

شد منهزم از کمال عزت

He was routed by the perfection of glory,

آن را که جلال حیرت آمد

to whom the majesty of wonder came.

سر تا قدم وجود حافظ

From head to foot, the being of Hafez

در عشق، نهال حیرت آمد

in love has become the sapling of wonder.