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The Divan of Hafez
- Form
- Form Poetry Collection
- Year
- Year 1390
- Originally in
- Originally in Persian
- Pages
- Pages 400
Across Iran, at Nowruz and in every hour of doubt, a household opens this book at random and reads whatever ghazal a finger lands on as a message meant for them; no other book of verse on earth is opened as an oracle this way. Hafez sings of wine and the cupbearer, the beloved's dark curl, the tavern where the honest drunkard shames the preaching hypocrite.
Arise, oh Cup-bearer, rise! and bring / To lips that are thirsting the bowl they praise,
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