Fal Hafez

Poem Number 26

Disheveled hair, sweaty, smili...

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The ghazal

Disheveled hair, sweaty, smiling, drunken, and

With a torn shirt, singing, the jug in hand

Narcissus loudly laments, on his lips, alas, alas!

Last night at midnight, came and sat right by my bed-stand

Brought his head next to my ears, with a sad song

Said, O my old lover, you are still in dreamland

The lover who drinks this nocturnal brew

Infidel, if not worships the wine's command

Go away O hermit, fault not the drunk

Our Divine gift from the day that God made sea and land

Whatever He poured for us in our cup, we just drank

If it was a cheap wine or heavenly brand

The smile on the cup's face and Beloved's hair strand

Break many who may repent, just as Hafiz falsely planned.

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