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Ghazal · 14th century

Who will speak again

Hafezحافظ

حال خونین دلان که گوید باز؟

Who will speak again of the state of those whose hearts are bleeding?

وز فلک خون خم که جوید باز؟

And who will demand again from the heavens the blood of the wine-jar?

شرمش از چشم می پرستان باد

Let the drunken narcissus be ashamed before the eyes of the wine-worshippers,

نرگس مست اگر بروید باز

if it should ever bloom again.

جز فلاطون خم نشین شراب

Who but the wine, that Plato sitting in the jar,

سر حکمت به ما که گوید باز؟

will tell us again the secret of wisdom?

هر که چون لاله کاسه گردان شد

Whoever, like the tulip, has passed the cup around

زین جفا رخ به خون بشوید باز

will wash his face in blood again for this cruelty.

نگشاید دلم چو غنچه اگر

My heart will not open like a rosebud

ساغری از لبش نبوید باز

unless it catches again the scent of a cup from her lips.

بس که در پرده چنگ گفت سخن

The harp has spoken so much behind the veil:

ببرش موی تا نموید باز

cut its strings of hair, so it will not wail again.

گرد بیت الحرام خم حافظ

Around the sacred house of the wine-jar Hafez,

گر نمیرد به سر بپوید باز

if he does not die, will run again upon his head.

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

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