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THE LETTER DAL
22O, 1
.
(1 86).
Plant the tree of friendship, that, to fruit, the heart's desire Up-pluck the bush of enmity, that countless troubles
When
thou art the guest of the tavern lers) be with respect
(of love),
bringeth
:
bringeth.
with profligates (holy travel-
:
O beloved, if thou be (only) a dreg-drinker, the intoxication, of wine- sickness (of the love for God), (even) this (dreg) bringeth.
For,
The night of society (with beloved ones), reckon plunder. For, after our time, The sphere many a revolution maketh many a night (winter) and day (spring) ;
-
bringeth.
Laila's litter-keeper, in
O
God! he
5.
O A
whose order
into his heart
is
the moon's cradle,
cast (the wish) that, passing
by
(the
abode
of)
Majnun, cause.
may
heart
If not, every year, this sward (the desire the spring season. world) like the wild rose, and a thousand (birds) like the
!
hundred beautiful roses, nightingale
Since, with
bringeth.
Thy
tress,
my wounded
heart hath established a covenant, for God's
sake,
Order Thy sweet ruby heart
!
(lip)
that to rest,
from work, thou hast fallen
;
its
(the heart's) state,
it
may
because thou hast a hundred
grief's load drink a draught of wine so that thee, into the state for work,
"
bring.
mans "
of
:
Go
:
it
(thy heart)
may
bring.
In this garden (the world), Hafiz, gray of head, asketh God That, by the marge of the stream, he may sit ; and into his embrace, a cypress
may
bring.
2.
The
4.
Laila signifies
first line may be : Like the guest of a tavern, with profligates be with respect. :
A long dark
night ; the night that precedeth the new moon ; a woman beautiful but black. Since Laila (a moon in beauty) was in the litter-keeper's order, you may say that in his order the moon was.
5.
The second
A 7.
A
line may be hundred beautiful roses
"man."
:
See
Ode
like the wild rose,
and
like the nightingale of
a thousand
notes.
144, c. 10.
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