Whoever caught your scent on the breeze

بوی خوش تو هر که ز باد صبا شنید

Whoever caught your sweet scent on the morning breeze

از یار آشنا سخن آشنا شنید

heard a familiar word from a familiar friend.

ای شاه حسن، چشم به حال گدا فکن

O king of beauty, cast an eye on the beggar's state,

کـاین گوش بس حکایت شاه و گدا شنید

for this ear has heard many tales of the king and the beggar.

خوش می‌کنم به باده مشکین مشام جان

I refresh the senses of my soul with musky wine,

کز دلق‌پوش صومعه بوی ریا شنید

for it caught the smell of hypocrisy from the cloister's cloaked one.

سر خدا که عارف سالک به کس نگفت

The secret of God, which the wayfaring gnostic told no one,

در حیرتم که باده‌فروش از کجا شنید

I wonder where the wine-seller heard it.

یا رب کجاست محرم رازی که یک زمان

O Lord, where is a confidant of secrets, so that for one moment

دل شرح آن دهد که چه گفت و چه‌ها شنید

my heart could tell what it has said, and all that it has heard?

اینش سزا نبود دل حق‌گزار من

My heart, which always gave others their due, did not deserve this:

کز غمگسار خود سخن ناسزا شنید

to hear unworthy words from its own consoler.

محروم اگر شدم ز سر کوی او چه شد؟

If I was barred from the head of her lane, what of it?

از گلشن زمانه که بوی وفا شنید؟

In the rose garden of this age, who ever caught the scent of faithfulness?

ساقی بیا که عشق ندا می‌کند بلند

Come, saqi, for love is calling aloud

کان کس که گفت قصه ما هم ز ما شنید

that whoever told our story heard it from us as well.

ما باده زیر خرقه نه امروز می‌خوریم

It is not only today that we drink wine under the cloak;

صد بار پیر میکده این ماجرا شنید

a hundred times the tavern elder has heard this tale.

ما می به بانگ چنگ نه امروز می‌کشیم

It is not only today that we drink wine to the sound of the harp;

بس دور شد که گنبد چرخ این صدا شنید

ages ago the dome of heaven heard this sound.

پند حکیم محض صواب است و عین خیر

The sage's counsel is pure rightness and goodness itself;

فرخنده آن کسی که به سمع رضا شنید

blessed is the one who heard it with a willing ear.

حافظ، وظیفه تو دعا گفتن است و بس

Hafez, your task is to offer your prayer, and nothing more;

در بند آن مباش که نشنید یا شنید

do not trouble yourself over whether it was heard or not.