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. Go alone (free from all attachments) ; for the highway of safety (love) is narrow (full of thorns and of stones) : ### Seize (quickly) the cup (love's attraction); for dear life is without exchange (returneth not ; and permitteth not the traveller to make good the omission of the past). ***