What need has my garden of cypress?

باغ مرا چه حاجت سرو و صنوبر است؟

What need has my garden of cypress and pine?

شمشاد خانه‌پرور ما از که کمتر است؟

Our home-grown box-tree, who is it less than?

ای نازنین‌پسر، تو چه مذهب گرفته‌ای؟

O darling boy, what creed have you taken up,

کت خون ما حلال‌تر از شیر مادر است

that our blood is more lawful to you than mother's milk?

چون نقش غم ز دور ببینی شراب خواه

When you see the shape of grief from afar, call for wine;

تشخیص کرده‌ایم و مداوا مقرر است

we have made the diagnosis, and the cure is prescribed.

از آستان پیر مغان، سر چرا کشیم؟

Why should we turn our head from the threshold of the Magian elder?

دولت در آن سرا و گشایش در آن در است

Fortune is in that house, and the opening is at that door.

یک قصه بیش نیست غم عشق، وین عجب

The grief of love is no more than one story, and this is the wonder:

کز هر زبان که می‌شنوم، نامکرر است

from every tongue I hear it, it is never the same.

دی وعده داد وصلم و در سر شراب داشت

Yesterday she promised me union, with wine in her head;

امروز تا چه گوید و بازش چه در سر است

let us see what she will say today, and what is in her head again.

شیراز و آب رکنی و این باد خوش نسیم

Shiraz, the water of Rokni and this sweet-scented wind:

عیبش مکن که خال رخ هفت کشور است

find no fault with them, for they are the mole on the cheek of the seven climes.

فرق است از آب خضر که ظلمات جای او است

There is a difference between the water of Khizr, whose home is the darkness,

تا آب ما که منبعش الله اکبر است

and our water, whose source is Allahu Akbar.

ما آبروی فقر و قناعت نمی‌بریم

We will not throw away the honour of poverty and contentment;

با پادشه بگوی که روزی مقدر است

tell the king: our daily bread is ordained.

حافظ چه طرفه شاخ نباتیست کلک تو

Hafez, what a rare stalk of sugar-cane your pen is,

کش میوه دلپذیرتر از شهد و شکر است

whose fruit is more delightful than honey and sugar.