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. If the (valueless) black stone give (its own) life, it becometh not the (valuable) ruby: ### What may it do ? With its original (ill) nature, it, (the state of) ill-nature hath befallen. ***