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 my heart heeded not the murshid, and turned to sensuality), from the garden of the chest, I up-plucked that pine-branch (the heart intent on evil) : ### From grief for which, every rose that blossomed, (only) the labour-load (of the thorn) brought. ***