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A PERSIAN SONG

OF HAFIZ.

WEET maid, if thou wouldst charm my fight,

SWE

And bid these arms thy neck infold;

That rofy cheek, that lily hand,

Would give thy poet more delight

Than all Bocara's vaunted gold,

Than all the gems of Samarcand.

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Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow,

And bid thy penfive heart be glad,
Whate'er the frowning zealots fay:

Tell them, their Eden cannot show
A stream so clear as Rocnabad,
A bow'r fo fweet as Mofellay.

O! when these fair perfidious maids,
Whofe eyes our fecret haunts infeft,
Their dear deftructive charms difplay;
Each glance my tender breast invades,
And robs my wounded foul of reft,
As Tartars feize their deftin'd prey.

Bedeh, faki, mei baki,

Ke der jennet nekhahi yaft

Kunari abi Rocnabad,

Va gulghefhti Mofellara.

Fugan kein lulian fhokh

I fhiringari fhehrafhob

Chunan berdendi fabr az dil

Ke Turcan khani yagmara.

In vain with love our bofoms glow:
Can all our tears, can all our fighs
New luftre to those charms impart ?
Can cheeks, where living roses blow,
Where nature spreads her richest dies,
Require the borrow'd glofs of art?

Speak not of fate :--- ah! change the theme,
And talk of odours, talk of wine,

Talk of the flow'rs that round us bloom:

'Tis all a cloud, 'tis all a dream;

To love and joy thy thoughts confine,

Nor hope to pierce the facred gloom.

Ze efhki na temami ma

Jemali yari muftagnift; Be ab u reng u khal u khatt

Che hajet ruyi zibara.

Hadis az mutreb u mei gu,

Va razi dehri kemter ju,

Ke kes nekfhud u nekshaied

Be hikmet ein moammara.

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Beauty

Beauty has fuch refiftless pow'r,

That ev'n the chafte Egyptian dame

Sigh'd for the blooming Hebrew boy;

For her how fatal was the hour,

When to the banks of Nilus came
A youth fo lovely and so coy!

But ah! sweet maid, my counsel hear :
(Youth should attend when those advise
Whom long experience renders fage)
While mufick charms the ravish'd ear,
While sparkling cups delight our eyes,
Be gay; and fcorn the frowns of age.

Men az an hufni ruzafzun

Ke Yufuf dashti daneftem,

Ke efhk az perdei ifmet

Berun ared Zuleikhara.

Nafihet gofhi kun jana,

Ke az jan doftiter darend

Juvanani faadetmend

I pendi peeri danara.

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