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. By the head of his own slain one (the lover), He (the Beloved) passeth (swiftly) like the wind : ### What can one do? For, He is (like swift) life ; and swiftness (of departing), it (life) hath. ***