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. From the spring-season of the rose, I had uplifted my heart (for in the rose-sea-son, I drink no wine ; wander not about the forbidden ; and, in the service of the pure, acquire perfection); but, ### (In it) the blessing of the pure ones of the time did no great work (effected little). ***