The Sea of Love a sea is, Whereunto shore is not

The sea of Love a sea is, Whereunto shore is not;
There, saving soul-surrender, Resource in store is not.

Affright us not with Reason's Forbidments, but bring wine:
With us in credit yonder Apparitor is not.

Each moment that thou givest The heart to Love is good;
Need, in good works, of praying, Direction for, is not.

Ask thou thine eye who slew us O soul of mine, the blame
For this to lay at Heaven's Or Fortune's door is not.

Thy face with pure eyes only, New-moon like, can one see:
That full moon cheek's unveiling Each eye before is not.

Hold thou the way of toping For gain; for, like the track
Of hidden treasure, patent To all this lore is not.

Unmoved of Hafiz' weeping Art thou: at that thy heart
I marvel, which than granite Less hard of core is not.
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Khwaja Shams-ad-din Muhammad Hafiz
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