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Ghazal · 14th century

Sufi, pick a rose

Hafezحافظ

صوفی گلی بچین و مرقع به خار بخش

Sufi, pick a rose, and give your patched cloak to the thorn;

وین زهد خشک را به می خوشگوار بخش

give away this dry asceticism for sweet-tasting wine.

طامات و شطح در ره آهنگ چنگ نه

Lay your pious tricks and ecstatic boasts in the path of the harp's song;

تسبیح و طیلسان به می و میگسار بخش

give away your rosary and your shawl for wine and the wine-drinker.

زهد گران که شاهد و ساقی نمی‌خرند

Heavy asceticism, which neither the beauty nor the saqi will buy,

در حلقه چمن به نسیم بهار بخش

give away to the spring breeze in the circle of the meadow.

راهم شراب لعل زد ای میر عاشقان

Ruby wine has waylaid me, O prince of lovers;

خون مرا به چاه زنخدان یار بخش

forgive my blood for the sake of the well in the beloved's chin.

یا رب به وقت گل، گنه بنده عفو کن

O Lord, in the season of the rose forgive your servant's sin,

وین ماجرا به سرو لب جویبار بخش

and pardon this affair for the sake of the cypress by the stream.

ای آن که ره به مشرب مقصود برده‌ای

O you who have found the way to the spring of the goal,

زین بحر، قطره‌ای به من خاکسار بخش

grant from this sea one drop to me, who am humble as dust.

شکرانه را که چشم تو روی بتان ندید

In thanks that your eye never looked upon the faces of beauties,

ما را به عفو و لطف خداوندگار بخش

forgive us, through the pardon and grace of the Lord.

ساقی چو شاه نوش کند باده صبوح

Saqi, when the King drinks the morning wine,

گو جام زر به حافظ شب زنده دار بخش

tell him to give a golden cup to Hafez, who keeps vigil through the night.

Translation
Persiahaus Editors
Source
Draft translation from the Ganjoor text (Qazvini–Ghani edition)

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