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. If with this hand (way), the minstrel of the assembly (the perfect murshid) waylayeth, love (rendering lovers selfless ; and drawing them into his net), ### (Even so), at the time of sama', me, from sense, the (lustrous) verse of Hafiz taketh. ***