The Poems of Shemseddin Mohammed Hafiz of Shiraz, volume 1
The Poems of Shemseddin Mohammed Hafiz of Shiraz, volume 1
Ḥāfiẓ, John Payne, Villon Society
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Digitized by Google 117 XCVI 1. Long for her the fire of passion Bumeth in this soul of ours, Through the yearnings that this wasted Heart do still control of ours. 2. In blood-water of the liver Mine eye-apple have they drowned ; Hence the sun-fount of her cheek is In this breast in dole of ours. ^ 3. ELhizr's water * but a trickle From that sugared ruby lip, And a reflex, from that moon-face, Is the round sun's bowl, of ours. 4. Since the verse "I breathed thereinto Of my breath" • I heard, '...tis plain To my mind that we of hers are And she part and whole of ours. 5. Apprehension of Love's mjrst'ries Is not giv'n to every heart; Nay, that high and subtle secret's Known but to this soul of ours. ^ 6. Prate no longer, o expounder Of the Faith ; for lo ! our faith In both worlds is the enjoyment Of that Loved One sole of ours. ' 1 Pupil of the eye likened to the raby, which (as before explained) the Persians l>elieye to become red by exposure, on fresh liver, to the sun-rays. Hence, the poet says, ''My eye-apple, being drowned in the blood ofmyliver*', which, it must be re- membered, is, for the Persians, the seat of love, ''is rubified by the sun-fount (i.
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