<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518374" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Where is my Ruined Life ?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHERE is my ruined life, and where the fame<br>Of noble deeds?<br>Look on my long-drawn road, and whence it came,<br>And where it leads!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can drunkenness be linked to piety<br>And good repute?<br>Where is the preacher's holy monody,<br>Where is the lute?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From monkish cell and lying garb released,<br>Oh heart of mine,<br>Where is the Tavern fane, the Tavern priest,<br>Where is the wine?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Past days of meeting, let the memory<br>Of you be sweet!<br>Where are those glances fled, and where for me<br>Reproaches meet?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His friend's bright face warms not the enemy<br>When love is done--<br>Where is the extinguished lamp that made night day,<br>Where is the sun?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Balm to mine eyes the dust, my head I bow<br>Upon thy stair.<br>Where shall I go, where from thy presence? thou<br>Art everywhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look not upon the dimple of her chin,<br>Danger lurks there!<br>Where wilt thou hide, oh trembling heart, fleeing in<br>Such mad haste--where?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To steadfastness and patience, friend, ask not<br>If Hafiz keep--<br>Patience and steadfastness I have forgot,<br>And where is sleep?</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=518374" data-title="Where is my Ruined Life ? de Shams al-Din Hafiz" data-description="WHERE is my ruined life, and where the fame Of noble deeds? Look on my long-drawn road, and whence it came, And where it leads! Can drunkenness be linked to piety And good repute? Where is the preacher's holy monody, Where is the lute? From monk..."></div> </div> </div>

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