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Ho, saki, haste, the beaker bring,
Fill up, and pass it round the ring;
Love seemed at first an easy thing—
But ah! the hard awakening.


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The chemist of love Will this perishing mould, Were it made out of mire, Transmute into gold.

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Hafez

Born: 1325
Died: 1389 (aged 64)
Bio: Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, known by his pen name Hafez, was a Persian poet who "lauded the joys of love and wine but also targeted religious hypocrisy." His collected works are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature and are to be found in the homes of most people in Iran, who learn his poems by heart and still use them as proverbs and sayings.
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  1. In Wineseller's Street: Renderings of Háfez
  2. The poems of Hafez
  3. The Gift: Poems by the Great Sufi Master
  4. The green sea of heaven

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