O Thou , whose face is like pa...

O Thou , whose face is like paradise , and ruby lip like the limpid water of paradise

Soul and heart , Thy translucent water hath endowed . *** Around Thy lip , Thy fresh - wearing black down ,

Is like the collection of black ants around the limpid water Thy resplendent face *** O Lord this fire of separation that within my soul is ,

Make cool to give me escape from separation and to cause me to attain union with Thee in that way that to Khalil Thou didst . *** O friends power of union with Him I gain not ,

For the reason that exceedingly beauteous beauty , He hath . *** Lame is our foot ; and far distant , is the stage like Paradise

Short , is our hand and on the lofty inaccessible date - tree , the date . *** In every corner , the arrow of Thy eye

Hath a hundred slain ones , lovers fallen like me . *** Independent of explanation , is the beauty of this verse

Argument respecting the sun's splendour , none seeketh . *** Afarin on the reed of such a Painter who gave ,

To the virgin of meaning , such a beauteous beauty . *** This verse either a miracle , or lawful magic , is

This verse , either the invisible messenger , or Jibrail , brought . *** To the King of the world , permanency and grandeur ;

And everything of this sort that he desireth be *** In this fashion a verse how to utter , none other knoweth

A pearl verse of this sort , none other can pierce utter *** From the grasp of the love for the idol , Hafiz ,

Like the feeble ant , at the foot of the great elephant , hath fallen . ***