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. At the time of (beholding) His face (which is better than the sward), retirement from the sward, our heart hath : ### For, like the cypress, foot-binding it is ; and like the (streaked) tulip, stain it hath. ***