O idol with grief of love for ...

O idol with grief of love for thee what plaint , shall I make

In grief for thee , till when the night - seizing wail^ shall I make *** Passed to the true Beloved my distraught heart on that account that a remedy it might accept

Perchance , with Thy tress - tip , its chain I may make . *** With on account of Thy own tress - tip is all my perturbation

Where the power that , all at once , all the narrative , I should make *** In the time of separation from Thee , what I endured alas

'Tis impossible that , in one letter , writing thereof I should make , *** That time when the desire of beholding the beloved is mine ,

In the vision , the picturing of Thy lovely face , imagining I make . *** If I know that , in this way , union with Thee , aid ,

Heart and faith , all I will play away and lose and yet increase thereof I will make . *** O admonisher far from me go foolishness , utter not

Not that one am I who , again , the ear of attention to thy hypocrisy will put . *** Profligate , one of colour ; and associate with the Beloved and wine ,. am I

I cannot consent that again , deceit and hypocrisy , I should practise . *** O Hafiz hope of freedom from iniquity is none :

Since fate is like this , what plan is it that I should make ***