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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480886" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From the Persian of Hafiz I</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Butler, fetch the ruby wine,<br>Which with sudden greatness fills us;<br>Pour for me who in my spirit<br>Fail in courage and performance;<br>Bring the philosophic stone,<br>Karun's treasure, Noah's life;<br>Haste, that by thy means I open<br>All the doors of luck and life.<br>Bring me, boy, the fire-water<br>Zoroaster sought in dust.<br>To Hafiz revelling 'tis allowed<br>To pray to Matter and to Fire.<br>Bring the wine of Jamschid's glass<br>That shone, ere time was, in the Néant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give it me, that through its virtue<br>I, as Jamschid, see through worlds.<br>Wisely said the Kaiser Jamschid,<br>This world's not worth a barleycorn.<br>Bring me, boy, the nectar cup,<br>Since it leads to Paradise.<br>Flute and lyre lordly speak,<br>Lees of wine outvalue crowns.<br>Hither bring the veiled beauty<br>Who in ill-famed houses sits:<br>Lead her forth: my honest name<br>Freely barter I for wine.<br>Bring me, boy, the fire-water,<br>Drinks the lion—the woods burn.<br>Give it me, that I storm heaven,<br>Tear the net from the arch-wolf.<br>Wine, wherewith the Houris teach<br>Angels the ways of Paradise.<br>On the glowing coals I'll set it,<br>And therewith my brain perfume.<br>Bring me wine, through whose effulgence<br>Jam and Chosroes yielded light:<br>Wine, that to the flute I sing<br>Where is Jam, and where is Kauss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bring the blessing of old times;<br>Bless the old departed Shahs;<br>Bring it me, the Shah of hearts.<br>Bring me wine to wash me clean,<br>Of the weather-stains of care,<br>See the countenance of luck.<br>While I dwell in spirit-gardens,<br>Wherefore sit I shackled here?<br>Lo, this mirror shows me all.<br>Drunk, I speak of purity,<br>Beggar, I of lordship speak.<br>When Hafiz in his revel sings,<br>Shouteth Sohra in her sphere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fear the changes of a day:<br>Bring wine which increases life,<br>Since the world is all untrue,<br>Let the trumpets thee remind<br>How the crown of Kobad vanished.<br>Be not certain of the world;<br>'Twill not spare to shed thy blood.<br>Desperate of the world's affair,<br>Came I running to the wine-house.<br>Give me wine which maketh glad,<br>That I may my steed bestride,<br>Through the course career with Rustem,<br>Gallop to my heart's content.<br>Give me, boy, the ruby cup<br>Which unlocks the heart with wine,<br>That I reason quite renounce,<br>And plant banners on the worlds.<br>Let us make our glasses kiss,<br>Let us quench the sorrow-cinders:<br>To-day let us drink together.<br>Whoso has a banquet dressed,<br>Is with glad mind satisfied,<br>'Scaping from the snares of Dews.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas for youth! 'tis gone in wind,—<br>Happy he who spent it well.<br>Give me wine, that I o'erleap<br>Both worlds at a single spring,<br>Stole at dawn from glowing spheres<br>Call of Houris to mine ear;<br>'O happy bird! delicious soul!<br>Spread thy pinion, break the cage;<br>Sit on the roof of the seven domes,<br>Where the spirit takes repose.'<br>In the time of Bisurdschimihr,<br>Menutscheher's beauty shined,<br>On the beaker of Nushirvan,<br>Wrote they once in eider times,<br>'Hear the Counsel, learn from us<br>Sample of the course of things;<br>Earth, it is a place of sorrow,<br>Scanty joys are here below,<br>Who has nothing, has no sorrow.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where is Jam, and where his cup?<br>Solomon, and his mirror where?<br>Which of the wise masters knows<br>What time Kauss and Jam existed?<br>When those heroes left this world,<br>Left they nothing but their names.<br>Bind thy heart not to the earth,<br>When thou goest, come not back.<br>Fools squander on the world their hearts.<br>League with it, is feud with heaven;<br>Never gives it what thou wishest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A cup of wine imparts the sight<br>Of the five heaven-domes with nine steps:<br>Whoso can himself renounce,<br>Without support shall walk thereon.<br>Who discreet is, is not wise.<br>Give me, boy, the Kaiser cup,<br>Which rejoices heart and soul;<br>Under type of wine and cup<br>Signify we purest love.<br>Youth like lightning disappears,<br>Life goes by us as the wind:<br>Leave the dwelling with six doors,<br>And the serpent with nine heads;<br>Life and silver spend thou freely,<br>If thou honorest the soul.<br>Haste into the other life;<br>All is nought save God alone.<br>Give me, boy, this toy of dæmons.<br>When the cup of Jam was lost,<br>Him availed the world no more.<br>Fetch the wine-glass made of ice,<br>Wake the torpid heart with wine.<br>Every clod of loam below us<br>Is a skull of Alexander;<br>Oceans are the blood of princes;<br>Desert sands the dust of beauties.<br>More than one Darius was there<br>Who the whole world overcame;<br>But since these gave up the ghost,<br>Thinkest thou they never were?<br>Boy, go from me to the Shah,<br>Say to him: Shah crowned as Jam,<br>Win thou first the poor man's heart,<br>Then the glass; so know the world.<br>Empty sorrows from the earth<br>Canst thou drive away with wine.<br>Now in thy throne's recent beauty,<br>In the flowing tide of power,<br>Moon of fortune, mighty king,<br>Whose tiara sheddeth lustre,<br>Peace secure to fish and fowl,<br>Heart and eye-sparkle to saints;<br>Shoreless is the sea of praise,—<br>I content me with a prayer.<br>From Nisami's poet-works,<br>Highest ornament of speech,<br>Here a verse will I recite,<br>Verse as beautiful as pearls.<br>'More kingdoms wait thy diadem,<br>Than are known to thee by name;<br>May the sovran destiny<br>Grant a victory every morn!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ralph+Waldo+Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a><div class=q>
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Which with sudden greatness fills us;
Pour for me who in my spirit
Fail in courage and performance;
Bring the philosophic stone,
Karun's treasure, Noah's life;
Haste, that by thy means I open
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