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 desire be thine that the (true) Beloved should not (by severing asunder attachments to thee) break the covenant, ### Keep (with respect) the end of the cord, so that (the covenant) He may preserve. ***