Lay Not Reproach At The Drunkard's Door Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBC DBBDEBE FAAFGAH IJJIKJK LMMLNMN| LAY not reproach at the drunkard's door | A |
| Oh Fanatic thou that art pure of soul | B |
| Not thine on the page of life to enrol | B |
| The faults of others Or less or more | A |
| I have swerved from my path keep thou to thine own | C |
| For every man when he reaches the goal | B |
| Shall reap the harvest his hands have sown | C |
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| Leave me the hope of a former grace | D |
| Till the curtain is lifted none can tell | B |
| Whether in Heaven or deepest Hell | B |
| Fair or vile shall appear his face | D |
| Alike the drunk and the strict of fare | E |
| For his mistress yearns in the mosque Love doth dwell | B |
| And the church for his lodging is everywhere | E |
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| If without the house of devotion I stand | F |
| I am not the first to throw wide the door | A |
| My father opened it long before | A |
| The eternal Paradise slipped from his hand | F |
| All you that misconstrue my words' intent | G |
| I lie on the bricks of the tavern floor | A |
| And a brick shall serve me for argument | H |
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| Heaven's garden future treasures may yield | I |
| Ah make the most of earth's treasury | J |
| The flickering shade of the willow tree | J |
| And the grass grown lip of the fruitful field | I |
| Trust not in deeds the Eternal Day | K |
| Shall reveal the Creator's sentence on thee | J |
| But till then what His finger has writ who can say | K |
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| Bring the cup in thine hand to the Judgment seat | L |
| Thou shalt rise oh Hafiz to Heaven's gate | M |
| From the tavern where thou hast tarried late | M |
| And if thou hast worshipped wine thou shalt meet | L |
| The reward that the Faithful attain | N |
| If such thy life then fear not thy fate | M |
| Thou shalt not have lived and worshipped in vain | N |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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