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. Last night (the day of covenant), He (the true Beloved, God) gave promise (of union); and, in His head, had the wine (of intoxication of Lovers) : ### To-day (this upspringing place of elemental water, the world, the place of woe, ; of self-seeing and of egotism), let us see what He saith ; in His head is what. ***