غزل شمارهٔ 452

For the sake of love's existence are man and Pari, A little (pure) desire, show, so that a great happiness (in attaining to true love) thou mayst achieve.

Khwaja ! strive ; portionless of love be not ; For none buyeth the slave with the defect of being void of skill.

The wine of the morning draught, and the sweet sleep of dawn, how long? (For pardon), strive by the supplication of mid-night; and, with the weeping of the morning.

O dainty one, sorcery-player ! what doll art thou thyself ? Neither in front of the eye art thou ; nor hidden from vision art thou.

A thousand holy souls consumed on account of this jealousy, For, every morning and evening, the candle of another assembly thou art.

The message from me to His Highness Asaf, who taketh, Saying : " Recollect two hemistiches of mine in Dan verse?"

Come, so that, even so, the world's way I may behold ; If, examination, thou wilt make, wine, thou drinkest ; and grief, sufferest not.

On thy head of beauty, aslant (in pride) be not the crown of sovereignty ! For, the beauty of fortune, and worthy of throne and of the crown of gold, thou art.

By the perfume of Thy tress and Thy cheek, go and come, The morning breeze for (acquiring from Thy tress the power of) perfume-diffusing, and the rose for (acquiring from Thy cheek) splendour.

Since, prepared of vision, thou art not, union, seek not, For, no good doeth the (world-viewing) cup of Jamshid at the time of being without vision.

Turneth calamity the prayer of the corner-sitters ; With a corner of thy eye, at us (corner-sitters), wherefore lookest thou not ?

(O beloved !) come ; and, from us, with the capital of thy beauty, sovereignty purchase ; Careless of this matter, be not, lest sorrow thou suffer.

Love's Path is a path wonderfully dangerous, We seek refuge in God ! If to a place of safety, the path thou take not.

By the blessing of the prayer of Hafiz, is hope that again I may see the traces (of glories) of my Laila (the true Beloved) in the path of the night, luminous with the moon.