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. At this time (full of iniquity), a friend, who is free from defect (of insincerity, and in whose society is joy), ### Is the goblet of pure wine (the glorious Kuran (from whose companionship, one can momently snatch delight), and the song-book (Divine knowledge, whose reading perpetually is full of pleasure). ***