O heart, if you escape from that well of deceit
Wherever you go, you'll soon regretfully leave
Beware, for if you listen to the temptation of reason
You will become like Adam and be expelled from the Garden of Eden
Perhaps the hand of fate will not reach your water
If you come out thirsty from the fountain of life
I would give my life out of longing for a glimpse of you, as the dawn does
May you appear like a radiant sun
I will so entrust my determination to the gentle breeze
That you will emerge from the bud like a joyful and smiling flower
In the dark night of your absence, my life has reached my lips
It's time for you to come out like a radiant moon
I have dammed two hundred streams from my eyes on your path
So that I may smell you as you pass by gracefully like a cypress
Hafez, don't think that that moon-faced Joseph
Will return and emerge from the hut of sorrows