To Linger In A Garden Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCAC DEDFGDG HIHIJKJ ALMNOMO| MIRTH Spring to linger in a garden fair | A |
| What more has earth to give All ye that wait | B |
| Where is the Cup bearer the flagon where | A |
| When pleasant hours slip from the hand of Fate | B |
| Reckon each hour as a certain gain | C |
| Who seeks to know the end of mortal care | A |
| Shall question his experience in vain | C |
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| Thy fettered life hangs on a single thread | D |
| Some comfort for thy present ills devise | E |
| But those that time may bring thou shalt not dread | D |
| Waters of Life and Irem's Paradise | F |
| What meaning do our dreams and pomp convey | G |
| Save that beside a mighty stream wide fed | D |
| We sit and sing of wine and go our way | G |
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| The modest and the merry shall be seen | H |
| To boast their kinship with a single voice | I |
| There are no differences to choose between | H |
| Thou art but flattering thy soul with choice | I |
| Who knows the Curtain's secret Heaven is mute | J |
| And yet with Him who holds the Curtain e'en | K |
| With Him oh Braggart thou would'st raise dispute | J |
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| Although His thrall shall miss the road and err | A |
| 'Tis but to teach him wisdom through distress | L |
| Else Pardon and Compassionate Mercy were | M |
| But empty syllables and meaningless | N |
| The Zealot thirsts for draughts of Kausar's wine | O |
| And Hafiz doth an earthly cup prefer | M |
| But what between the two is God's design | O |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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