O bird of Paradise, your secre...

O bird of Paradise, your secrets disclose

Cease not the sweetness your tongue outward throws.

May you remain vital, your heart content

From the Great Artisan, the beauty you chose.

You spoke in riddles with all thy foes

Unveiling of the secrets, God only knows.

From the rosy cup splash and bring me scent

We only went to sleep when fate arose.

How the minstrel played this playful tune

Drunk and sober dance on feet and toes.

From intoxication, who is immune?

Both friend and foe lost their repose.

No water in sight for Alexander’s thirst

Neither power nor gold, can impose.

Listen to the pain of the heart at first

Few words that much meaning enclose.

Clay idols, the heart and soul oppose

To all idols my heart and soul may God close.

To the drunken say not secrets of the wine

Nor to lifeless the tale of soul disclose.

By the royal decree wrote line after line

To such poetic heights Hafiz ever rose;

It is not ours but God’s will that goes

May God keep him from all harmful blows.