غزل شمارهٔ 160

Pleasant is Khalvat, if my beloved, the Beloved shall be Not if I consume and the candle of assembly, He shall be.

As naught, I take Sulaiman’s seal-ring, On which, sometimes, Ahriman’s hand shall be.

O God! hold it not lawful that, in the sacred enclosure of union The watcher, included; and my lot, excluded shall be.

To the Homa, say: “Cast not thy auspicious shadow On that land where the parrot less than the kite shall be.”

What need of the description of desire, when the explanation of the heart’s fire, One can recognize from the burning which in speech may be.

From our head, the desire for Thy street goeth not, With his native land, the stranger’s distraught heart shall be.

If like the lily, ten tongues be Hafez’s, Before Thee, like the rose-bud, on his mouth, the seal shall be.