غزل شمارهٔ 365

A hundred times, before the dust of Thy foot, our face we have placed, Hypocrisy and dissimulation, aside we have placed.

The arch and the corridor of the College, and the disputation of excellence, (So that they may go to the wind of destruction), in the path of ease and of the (true) Beloved, rose of face, we have placed.

To those two narcissi of the sorcerer, our life we have entrusted ; In those two Hindu hyacinths (black tresses), also our heart we have placed.

Passed hath a long life, and in hopefulness of a glance, On those two narcissi of sorcery, an eye (of hope), we have placed.

Not with the army, have we taken the country of ease : Not with the (powerful) arm, the throne of sovereignty (is it that) we have placed.

Let us see what sport the sorcery of the Friend's eye maketh, for, again, On the glance of sorcery, our foundation (of life),' we have placed.

Without the grace of His narcissus, our head of distraughtness from wine (of love) Like the (dark, mourning) violet, on the knee we have placed.

In hope's corner, like (eager) spectators of the (new) moon, On that curve of the eye-brow, hope's eye we have placed.

Thou spakest saying : " O Hafiz ! thy distraught heart is where? " In the meshes of that curl of the tress, (it) we have placed.