From the Divan of Hafez · 9 couplets
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The nightingale from the cypress branch, in Pahlavi song,
was reading last night the lesson of spiritual stations.
That is: Come — for the fire of Moses appeared as a flower —
that from the tree you may hear the point of Unity.
The birds of the garden are rhyming and joking —
so that the master may drink wine to Pahlavi ghazals.
Jamshid took nothing from the world but the tale of the cup —
beware! Do not bind your heart to worldly things.
Hear this strange tale from upside-down fortune:
our beloved killed us with the breath of Jesus.
How sweet the time of the reed-mat, begging, and safe sleep —
for this pleasure is not befitting the throne of a king.
Your eye, with a glance, ruined the house of the people —
may you never have a hangover — for you go sweetly drunk.
The old farmer said so well to his son:
O light of my eye — you will reap nothing but what you have sown.
Cupbearer, perhaps you gave Hafez a larger portion —
for disheveled has become the curl of the Mawlavi's turban.
بلبل، ز شاخِ سرو، به گلبانگِ پهلوی
میخوانْد دوش، درسِ مقاماتِ معنوی
یعنی بیا، که آتشِ موسی، نمودْ گُل
تا از درخت، نکتهٔ توحید بشنوی
مرغان باغ، قافیهسنجند و بذلهگوی
تا خواجه مِی خورَد، به غزلهای پهلوی
جمشید، جز حکایتِ جام، از جهان نَبُرد
زنهار! دل مَبَند، بر اسبابِ دنیوی
این قصّهٔ عجب شِنو از بختِ واژگون
ما را بِکُشت یار، به انفاسِ عیسَوی
خوش، وقتِ بوریا و گدایی و خوابِ امن
کاین عیش، نیست درخورِ اُورَنگِ خسروی
چَشمت، به غَمزه، خانهٔ مردم، خراب کرد
مَخموریـَت مَباد، که خوش مَست میرَوی
دهقان سالخورده، چه خوش گفت با پسر
کای نورِ چشمِ من! به جز از کِشته، نَدرَوی
ساقی، مگر وظیفهٔ حافظ، زیاده داد
کآشفته گَشت، طُرّهٔ دَستارِ مولوی
Source: Ganjoor.net
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