From the Divan of Hafez · 9 couplets
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May it be remembered: she who, at the time of departing, did not remember us —
who did not gladden our grief-stricken heart with a farewell.
That young and fortunate one, who used to sign decrees of goodness —
I wonder why she did not free this old servant.
I will wash my paper garment in blood, for fate
did not guide me to the foot of the banner of justice.
My heart, hoping that a cry might reach you,
wailed in this mountain as Farhad never did.
Since you withdrew your shadow from the garden, the bird of dawn
did not make its nest in the curl of the boxwood's tress.
The courier of the breeze might well learn its work from you,
for never did the wind move more swiftly than this.
The pen of Creation's beautician will not draw the design of desire
for whoever did not acknowledge this God-given beauty.
Minstrel, change the mode and strike up the road to Iraq,
for by this road the beloved went and did not remember us.
The ghazals of Iraqi are what Hafez sings —
who heard this heart-burning melody and did not cry out?
یاد باد آن که ز ما وقتِ سفر یاد نکرد
به وداعی دلِ غمدیدهٔ ما شاد نکرد
آن جوانبخت که میزد رقمِ خیر و قبول
بندهٔ پیر ندانم ز چه آزاد نکرد
کاغذین جامه به خوناب بشویم که فلک
رهنمونیم به پایِ عَلَمِ داد نکرد
دل به امّیدِ صدایی که مگر در تو رسد
نالهها کرد در این کوه که فرهاد نکرد
سایه تا بازگرفتی ز چمن مرغِ سحر
آشیان در شِکَنِ طُرِّهٔ شمشاد نکرد
شاید ار پیکِ صبا، از تو بیاموزد کار
زان که چالاکتر از این حرکت باد نکرد
کِلْکِ مَشّاطِهٔ صُنعَش نَکِشد نقشِ مراد
هر که اقرار بدین حُسنِ خداداد نکرد
مطربا پرده بگردان و بزن راهِ عراق
که بدین راه بشد یار و ز ما یاد نکرد
غزلیاتِ عراقیست سرودِ حافظ
که شنید این رهِ دلسوز که فریاد نکرد؟
Source: Ganjoor.net
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