Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

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TRANSLATED BY
GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1897
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قضا دستيست پنج انگشت دارد چه خواهد از کسي کامي برآرد
دو بر چشمش نهد ديگر دو بر گوش يکي بر لب نهد گويد که خاموش
Thus said the Poet: “When Death comes to you,
All ye whose life-sand through the hour-glass slips,