Seize the moment as much as you can This moment is all you'll gain from life, know this well The wheel of fortune brings sweetness but also bitterness Strive to gather the riches of life's bounty

If the gardener, like me, leaves this place, be it forbidden
If you plant a cypress other than my beloved in my place

The repentant ascetic will be killed by the joy of wine
O wise one, don't do anything that will bring regret

The morality police don't know as much as the Sufi
That a familiar thing can be like a ruby

Don’t compete with the night-praying pious, sweet-lipped ones
We are protected by the seal of Solomon's name

Listen to the advice of lovers and return to the door of joy
For all this world's work is not worth it

My dear Joseph is gone, O brothers, have mercy
I see the old man of Canaan in a similar state of grief

Don’t speak of your wildness to the ascetic, for one cannot tell
One’s secret pain to an unsympathetic doctor

You go, and your eyelashes shed the blood of people
You go so fast, my love, I fear you will fall

My heart was guarded from the arrow of your eye
But your arched eyebrow takes it to my forehead

Gather up the distraught Hafez with your kindness
O curl of your hair, assembly of confusion

If you are indifferent to us, O heavy-hearted beauty
I will tell my own story to Asif the Second