From The Persian Of Hafiz I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFHIJHKL MNMGOPQRMSTGHGGUVPMW PMXP PPPGYZPA2B2MQPC2 MFMMMMMYPMMWMOGPPPPH MMP MD2OXPA2E2F2P A2MGPPPA2A2 OA2PMMPG2H2PGM MPPGPOE2OI2PMPPME2FG PMA2PGPA2PPA2WMA2J2W MMG2GMA2XA2K2PPA2PVM PWWM

Butler fetch the ruby wineA
Which with sudden greatness fills usB
Pour for me who in my spiritC
Fail in courage and performanceD
Bring the philosophic stoneE
Karun's treasure Noah's lifeF
Haste that by thy means I openG
All the doors of luck and lifeF
Bring me boy the fire waterH
Zoroaster sought in dustI
To Hafiz revelling 'tis allowedJ
To pray to Matter and to FireH
Bring the wine of Jamschid's glassK
That shone ere time was in the N antL
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Give it me that through its virtueM
I as Jamschid see through worldsN
Wisely said the Kaiser JamschidM
This world's not worth a barleycornG
Bring me boy the nectar cupO
Since it leads to ParadiseP
Flute and lyre lordly speakQ
Lees of wine outvalue crownsR
Hither bring the veiled beautyM
Who in ill famed houses sitsS
Lead her forth my honest nameT
Freely barter I for wineG
Bring me boy the fire waterH
Drinks the lion the woods burnG
Give it me that I storm heavenG
Tear the net from the arch wolfU
Wine wherewith the Houris teachV
Angels the ways of ParadiseP
On the glowing coals I'll set itM
And therewith my brain perfumeW
Bring me wine through whose effulgenceP
Jam and Chosroes yielded lightM
Wine that to the flute I singX
Where is Jam and where is KaussP
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Bring the blessing of old timesP
Bless the old departed ShahsP
Bring it me the Shah of heartsP
Bring me wine to wash me cleanG
Of the weather stains of careY
See the countenance of luckZ
While I dwell in spirit gardensP
Wherefore sit I shackled hereA2
Lo this mirror shows me allB2
Drunk I speak of purityM
Beggar I of lordship speakQ
When Hafiz in his revel singsP
Shouteth Sohra in her sphereC2
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Fear the changes of a dayM
Bring wine which increases lifeF
Since the world is all untrueM
Let the trumpets thee remindM
How the crown of Kobad vanishedM
Be not certain of the worldM
'Twill not spare to shed thy bloodM
Desperate of the world's affairY
Came I running to the wine houseP
Give me wine which maketh gladM
That I may my steed bestrideM
Through the course career with RustemW
Gallop to my heart's contentM
Give me boy the ruby cupO
Which unlocks the heart with wineG
That I reason quite renounceP
And plant banners on the worldsP
Let us make our glasses kissP
Let us quench the sorrow cindersP
To day let us drink togetherH
Whoso has a banquet dressedM
Is with glad mind satisfiedM
'Scaping from the snares of DewsP
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Alas for youth 'tis gone in windM
Happy he who spent it wellD2
Give me wine that I o'erleapO
Both worlds at a single springX
Stole at dawn from glowing spheresP
Call of Houris to mine earA2
'O happy bird delicious soulE2
Spread thy pinion break the cageF2
Sit on the roof of the seven domesP
Where the spirit takes repose '-
In the time of BisurdschimihrA2
Menutscheher's beauty shinedM
On the beaker of NushirvanG
Wrote they once in eider timesP
'Hear the Counsel learn from usP
Sample of the course of thingsP
Earth it is a place of sorrowA2
Scanty joys are here belowA2
Who has nothing has no sorrow '-
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Where is Jam and where his cupO
Solomon and his mirror whereA2
Which of the wise masters knowsP
What time Kauss and Jam existedM
When those heroes left this worldM
Left they nothing but their namesP
Bind thy heart not to the earthG2
When thou goest come not backH2
Fools squander on the world their heartsP
League with it is feud with heavenG
Never gives it what thou wishestM
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A cup of wine imparts the sightM
Of the five heaven domes with nine stepsP
Whoso can himself renounceP
Without support shall walk thereonG
Who discreet is is not wiseP
Give me boy the Kaiser cupO
Which rejoices heart and soulE2
Under type of wine and cupO
Signify we purest loveI2
Youth like lightning disappearsP
Life goes by us as the windM
Leave the dwelling with six doorsP
And the serpent with nine headsP
Life and silver spend thou freelyM
If thou honorest the soulE2
Haste into the other lifeF
All is nought save God aloneG
Give me boy this toy of d monsP
When the cup of Jam was lostM
Him availed the world no moreA2
Fetch the wine glass made of iceP
Wake the torpid heart with wineG
Every clod of loam below usP
Is a skull of AlexanderA2
Oceans are the blood of princesP
Desert sands the dust of beautiesP
More than one Darius was thereA2
Who the whole world overcameW
But since these gave up the ghostM
Thinkest thou they never wereA2
Boy go from me to the ShahJ2
Say to him Shah crowned as JamW
Win thou first the poor man's heartM
Then the glass so know the worldM
Empty sorrows from the earthG2
Canst thou drive away with wineG
Now in thy throne's recent beautyM
In the flowing tide of powerA2
Moon of fortune mighty kingX
Whose tiara sheddeth lustreA2
Peace secure to fish and fowlK2
Heart and eye sparkle to saintsP
Shoreless is the sea of praiseP
I content me with a prayerA2
From Nisami's poet worksP
Highest ornament of speechV
Here a verse will I reciteM
Verse as beautiful as pearlsP
'More kingdoms wait thy diademW
Than are known to thee by nameW
May the sovran destinyM
Grant a victory every morn '-

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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