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. In the matter of rose-water and of the rose, the decree of eternity without beginning was this : ### " That that (the rose) should be the lovely one of the bazar (the harlot) ; and that this (the rose-water) should be the sitter behind the veil (the chaste one)." ***