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. With the colour of wine (some of the mysteries and stages of love), we cleanse the religious garments (the existence of the holy traveller) with (penitential) tears : ### For, the season of austerity, and the time of piety it is. ***