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Good news, lovely nightingale!
The garden is filled with life again!

Warm wind, when you fly along the pastures,
send word to the delicate flowers:

"I will stay forever at the door of the tavern,
because the serving-girl is too beautiful to miss,
Beloved! I have lost myself in lovesickness for you,
In your heart I sail as safely as in Noah's Ark"

Those who condemn the drinkers
will lose all their piousness and beliefs
in the tavern.

Why do people struggle to make goals out of greed,
when they know that someday we all end in the grave?

Hafiz, drink, and be a friend to bandits if you like,
but never dare to go near the criminal Priests!

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