The book of poetry and the cup of wine
are your dearest friends.Watch the road, it twists and turns.
Enjoy the wine, because you live only once.If you're wise, it will show.
Speaking wise words without showing wise actions
is a sign of falsehood.In the eye of wisdom, all the goals of this world
are but dreams, though they might be pretty.Without you my heart aches.
Only death separates me from the Friend.Take refuge in the Beloved and speak no words,
our fate is Written in the stars.Drink the wine eternal, Hafiz, and do not hold back;
Do not let yourself be sober for even a moment.
