Thou knowest what tale it is t...

Thou knowest what tale it is that the harp and the lyre renowned men of piety make

Secretly drink ye wine of love and reveal it not that thee precious they may make . *** The honour of love and the splendour of lovers , they take

The censure of the young and the reproof of the old , they make . *** They say To any one utter ye not love's mystery from any one hear it not

It is a difficult story for the concealing of love is impossible whereof relation , they make . *** Without the door , we being deceived by a hundred deceits ,

Let us see , within the screen , what device they make . *** 5Time's vexation , they give the Pir of the Magians

Behold what sport with the Pir , these holy travellers make *** One can purchase a hundred honours with half a glance ,

In this act of glance - making deficiency , lovely ones make . *** With effort and struggle , a crowd established union with the true Beloved

Reliance on Fate saying if union be decreed union will be another crowd make . *** In short , on Time's permanency , rely not

For this world is the workshop wherein change they make . *** Save the base coin , is no result . Yet ,

In this fancy it is that vainly alchemy they make . *** Drink wine . For the Shaikh , and Hafiz , and the Mufti and the Muhtasib ,

All when thou lookest well fraud openly abstaining from wine , secretly drinking wine make . ***