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. Since the (filthy) crow hath no shame of planting his (horrid) foot on the (sweet) rose, ### It befitteth the bulbuls if (as protection) the skirt of a great thorn, they take. ***