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. For a long time past, in the tavern (of love, of manifestations, of glories), service (in {rue love to God, in manifestations, and in fearful contemplation), I have been doing : ### In the garment of poverty (as a fakir), the work of people of fortune (those joined to God), I keep doing. ***