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. I am in astonishment wherefore He (the jewel) became the fellow-breather (the lover) of the watcher (the shell) : ### The (worthless) shell, as the associate of the (precious) jewel, one made not. ***