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. If the early morning meal (deeds of service and of abstinence) hath vanished, what matter? There is (still) the morning wine (deeds of love): ### With wine, fast-breaking (keeping back from the world's affluence), the seekers of the true Beloved make. ***