A hundred times , before the d...

A hundred times , before the dust of Thy foot , our face we have placed ,

Hypocrisy and dissimulation , aside we have placed . *** To those two narcissi of the sorcerer , our life we have entrusted

In those two Hindu hyacinths black tresses also our heart we have placed . *** Not with the army , have we taken the country of ease

Not with the powerful arm , the throne of sovereignty is it that we have placed . *** In hope's corner , like eager spectators of the new moon ,

On that curve of the eye - brow , hope's eye we have placed . *** Without the grace of His narcissus , our head of distraughtness from wine of love

Like the dark , mourning violet , on the knee we have placed . *** On our feeble heart , the heavy burden of love we have placed

And this business worldly and outward affairs bound with a single hair easily snapped we have placed . *** Let us see what sport the sorcery of the Friend's eye maketh , for , again ,

On the glance of sorcery , our foundation of life ' we have placed . *** The arch and the corridor of the College , and the disputation of excellence ,

So that they may go to the wind of destruction in the path of ease and of the true Beloved , rose of face , we have placed . *** Passed hath a long life , and in hopefulness of a glance ,

On those two narcissi of sorcery , an eye of hope we have placed . *** The fame of so many years generations of ancestors , good of name ,

So that they may go to the wind of destruction in' the path of the cup and of the Saki of love , we have placed . *** Sensible and learned , are we for , with heart , on the hand and the foot ,

The chain and the bond of that tress - curl , we have placed . *** Hafiz for love , strive . For the cash of wisdom and of sense outward knowledge

For the sake of the true Beloved of chain - tress , aside we have placed . *** A glance , make . For our two expectant eyes ,

Ever on the two corners of Thy eye - brow , we have placed . *** Thou spakest saying O Hafiz thy distraught heart is where

In the meshes of that curl of the tress , it we have placed . ***