O Saki arise and into the cup ...

O Saki arise and into the cup of gold , joyous water wine the intoxication of love cast

Before that the cap of the head the skull dust becometh cast . *** In the end , our dwelling is the valley of the silent the place of tombs

Now into the vault of the skies , the resounding shout and clamour of zikr va fikr cast *** Far from the true Beloved's face , is the eye stained with sight for other than God

On His face , from the pure mirror of the pure heart glance cast . *** O cypress I conjure thee by thy verdant head , when I become dust ,

Out from thy head , disdain put and , on this my dust , shade cast . *** For our heart that , from the deadly snake of Thy tress - tip , is shattered

From Thy own lip to the recovery - house , the antidote of a kiss cast . *** The country of this sown - field the world thou knowest that it hath no permanency

Into the countries of the world from the liver of the wine cup , the murshid's interior a great fire' cast . *** In my own tears , I bathed . For the people of tarikat say

First be pure then , on the beauty of that Pure One , the true Beloved thy eye cast . *** O Lord that zahid , self - beholding , who , save defect , saw naught ,

Into the mirror of his understanding so that he may , no longer , see defect the smoke of a great sigh cast . *** Hafiz like the rose , on account of His perfume make rent thy garment

And , in the path of that form of the Beloved swift for the slaughter of lovers that rent garment cast . ***