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. O Lord ! (as guilty) take him not. Although my heart, like the pigeon (flying in love to Thee), ### He cast down and slew ; and respect for the prey of the sacred enclosure had not. ***