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 dawn, the bird of the sward (the necessarily existent One, God) spake to the rose (faithful men in the state of being beloved) : ### "Display less disdain ; for, in this garden (the world) many a one like thee hath blossomed." ***