The rose looks like dark wine,
The nightingale sings its praises.Wander through the fields with the book of Love,
This isn't the time for giving lectures!The drunken judge proclaimed last night:
"Drinking is wickedness and embezzlement is wrong!"The wine is Written for you, but not for long.
Enjoy the wine and the musicians while you can.Or worry about looking pious and of good reputation,
hide from people and the world.
Being a Priest is good business after all;
Pretending to be pious earns priests more money
than a goldsmith or a weaver.Hafiz, these words are secrets for wise men.
They are gold to the mystic that knows true gold.
