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. Thou spakest, saying: "Hafiz! all this colour of fancy (imaginary pictures) is what ? " ### (Hafiz replied : ) " Say not a false picture ; for, verily, the tablet smooth (like " a mirror, void of picture) we are." ***