If life were , to the wine - h...

If life were , to the wine - house , I would go another time :

Save the service of profligates , I would do no other work . *** Happy that day , when , with weeping eye , I go

So that , on the wine - house door , water of tears I may dash an other time . *** In this tribe with whom , I am captive divine knowledge is none , O God a little help ,

Whereby , my own jewel of existence I may take to an other purchaser . *** If the true Beloved departed and recognised not the right of ancient society .

God forbid that I should go in pursuit of an other beloved . *** If my helper be the circle of the azure sphere ,

Him the true Beloved to hand , I will bring with an other compass . *** Ease seeketh my heart , if permit

His bold glance and that cut - purse tress an other time . *** Behold our closed - up mystery that , as a tale , they uttered ,

Momently , with drum and reed , at the head of an other bazar . *** Momently , with pain , I bewail . For , momently , the sky ,

For my wounded heart , maketh device with an other torment : *** Again , I say Captive in this matter of pain not alone is Hafiz

In this desert of pain overwhelmed , hath become many an other person . ***