<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518323" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Friend has fled</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My friend has fled! alas, my friend has fled,<br>And left me nought but tears and pain behind!<br>Like smoke above a flame caught by the wind,<br>So rose she from my breast and forth she sped.<br>Drunk with desire, I seized Love's cup divine,<br>But she that held it poured the bitter wine<br>Of Separation into it and fled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hunter she, and I the helpless prey;<br>Wounded and sick, round me her toils she drew,<br>My heart into a sea of sorrow threw,<br>Bound up her camel loads and fled away.<br>Fain had I laid an ambush for her soul,<br>She saw and vanished, and the timid foal,<br>Good Fortune, slipped the rein and would not stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My heart was all too narrow for my woe,<br>And tears of blood my weeping eyes have shed,<br>A crimson stream across the desert sped,<br>Rising from out my sad heart's overflow.<br>She knew not what Love's meanest slave can tell:<br>''Tis sweet to serve!' but threw me a Farewell,<br>Kissing my threshold, turned, and cried 'I go!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the clear dawn, before the east was red,<br>Before the rose had torn her veil in two,<br>A nightingale through Hafiz' garden flew,<br>Stayed but to fill its song with tears, and fled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shams+al-Din+Hafiz">Shams al-Din Hafiz</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518323" data-title="My Friend has fled de Shams al-Din Hafiz" data-description="My friend has fled! alas, my friend has fled, And left me nought but tears and pain behind! Like smoke above a flame caught by the wind, So rose she from my breast and forth she sped. Drunk with desire, I seized Love's cup divine, But she that hel..."></div> </div> </div>

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