O beloved hidden from my sight...

O beloved hidden from my sight to God , I entrust , thee .

In pain of separation thou consumedest my soul ; yet with heart , friend I hold thee . *** So long as I trail not the skirt of my shroud beneath the foot of the dust of the grave

Believe not , I will keep my hand from off the skirt of thee . *** Display the prayer - arch of thy eyebrow , that , in the morning - time ,

In excuse I may bring forth my hand of prayer and bring it upon the neck of thee . *** If it be necessary for me to go to Harut of Babil ,

A hundred kinds of sorcery learned from him I will evoke to bring thee . *** Of thy grace , give me access to thyself so that , with heart - consuming ,

The jewel the tear of the eye , I may momently rain upon the feet of thee . *** In exceeding love for thee I have , in my bosom , established a hundred streams of tear from my eye

In the hope that I may sow love's seed in the heart of thee . *** I weep and , from this tear , torrent raining , my hope

Is that love's seed , I may plant in the heart of thee . *** The beloved spilled my blood and released me from grief of separation ,

Thank - profferer , I am for the dagger - working glance of thee . *** O faithless physician the beloved I wish to die before thee

Ask the sick for I am in expectation of thee . *** If my eye and heart show desire for another lovely one

To that heart , I set fire and pluck out the eye for the sake of thee . *** Hafiz wine love and the mistress the beloved and profligacy the fearless , careless state are not contrary to thy way of life

Thus wholly thou doest and since thou exceedest not I pardon thee . ***