If after Him , I go , He up st...

If after Him , I go , He up stirreth calamity saying wherefore comest thou after me

And if I sit abstaining from search , in wrath , He ariseth . *** And , if , through desire , a moment on a highway ,

I fall , like the dust at his foot , like the swift wind , He fleeth . *** And , if I desire only half a kiss , a hundred reproaches ,

Like sugar , from the small round box of his small mouth , He out poureth . *** The acclivity and declivity of love's desert is calamity's snare

A lion - hearted one is where , who not calamity shunneth *** That deceit , that 1 behold in thy eye ,

Many a reputation it is that , even with the dust of the path , it spilleth . *** When I speak to him , saying Wherefore consortest thou with other persons

So , He doth that , with blood , my tears , He mixeth . *** Ask thou for long life and a great patience because then thou wilt see that the sphere , sorcery - practising ,

A thousand tricks more strange than this , evoketh . *** Hafiz place thy head on the threshold of submission

For if thou make contention , with thee , Time contendeth . ***