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. Come ! come ! so that, awhile, with wine (of love) ruined (effaced and non-existent) we may become : ### Perchance (by means of love), to that great fortune (union with the true Beloved), we may, (in the stage of effacement) in this ruined place (the world, the field of the first, and the last, world), reach. ***