Divān

Hafez

Perseus:bib:oclc, 559481156. The Dīvān .Translated for the first time out of the Persian into English prose, with critical and explanatory remarks, with an introductory preface, with a note on Ṣūfīism, and with a life of the author, by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Calcutta, India. 1891.

  1. The dark night (of the world), and the fear of the wave (of grief), and the whirlpool so fearful (the time of death). ### The light-burdened ones of the shore (ancestors who have passed the flood of death), how know they our state? ***