The Green Field of the Sky
Hafezحافظ
مزرع سبز فلک دیدم و داس مه نو
I saw the green field of the sky and the sickle of the new moon;
یادم از کشته خویش آمد و هنگام درو
I remembered what I had sown, and the time of harvest.
گفتم ای بخت بخفتیدی و خورشید دمید
I said, ‘O Fortune, you have slept, and the sun has risen.’
گفت با این همه از سابقه نومید مشو
She said, ‘For all that, do not despair of the grace decreed before time.’
گر روی پاک و مجرد چو مسیحا به فلک
If you go up to heaven pure and unencumbered, like the Messiah,
از چراغ تو به خورشید رسد صد پرتو
a hundred rays will reach the sun from your lamp.
تکیه بر اختر شب دزد مکن کاین عیار
Do not rely on the night-thief star, for this rogue
تاج کاووس ببرد و کمر کیخسرو
carried off the crown of Kavus and the belt of Kay Khosrow.
A note for readers
The opening couplets of a ghazal that begins with the night sky as a field ready for harvest, a reminder of the deeds the speaker has sown. Jesus, who in Islamic tradition was raised to the fourth heaven, is the model of the soul that travels light, and Kavus and Kay Khosrow are kings of the Shahnameh. The excerpt gives four of the ghazal’s nine couplets.
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یک عمر می‌توان سخن از زلف یار گفت
در بند آن مباش که مضمون نمانده است
One could speak for a lifetime of the beloved’s tresses;
do not fret that there are no themes left.
A Lifetime on the Beloved’s Tresses
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.