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. Of the cypress and the pine (the apparent Murshid), what need. hath my garden (of apparent existence that, in the fresh spring of intoxication and of youth, is all beflowered) ? ### Our (lofty) boxtree (the true, perfect, love-experienced, Murshid) nurtured in the shade, is less than who? ***