People spake , saying In beaut...

People spake , saying In beauty a second Yusuf thou art

When , well , I looked , verily better than that I had heard thou art . *** Sweeter than that which , with sweet smile , they say thou art ,

Khusrau of the lovely ones for , the Shirin of the age , thou art . *** To the folded rose - bud , thy mouth , one cannot compare

Never is the rose - bud with this narrow - mouthness . *** If , on account of thy stature and gait , the moving cypress remained behind in its place ,

Move thou . For thou hast surpassed the moving cypress in movingness . *** A hundred times Thou saidest : From this mouth , thy desire I give

Like the noble ten - tongued lily , why art Thou all a tongue *** Thou saidest Thy desire , I will give thy life , I wilt take

I fear my desire , Thou givest not and my life Thou wilt take . *** Through the shield of my life , Thy sick , languishing eye causeth to pass the poplar arrow

The eye sick , who hath seen with so strong a bow *** O true Beloved like the worthless tear from the eye of man , him Thou easiest ,

Him , whom a moment , away from Thy sight , Thou drivest . *** Away from before Thyself , Thy own grief - stricken Hafiz , drive not

For , through love for Thy face , he gave sacrificed heart , faith , and youth . *** In the path of love to Thee , like the pen , a foot out of his head Hafiz made ,

It , one moment , like a letter out of kindness , why readest Thou not ***