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. When the enemy (Iblis, full of fraud, man-seducing) draweth the sword, we cast (away) the shield (in flight): ### For save weeping and wailing, our sword is none. ***