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. When thou art on the surface of the land (yet living) regard powerfulness plunder (take profit of it ; be not careless): ### For, beneath the surface of the land (in the grave), many a non-powerful one Time hath. ***