Ghazal No. 156: None can match my beloved in beauty, character, and loyalty

غزل شماره ۱۵۶: به حسن و خلق و وفا کس به یار ما نرسد

In beauty and nature and loyalty no one reaches our beloved

For you denial doesn't reach our work in this speech

به حسن و خلق و وفا کس به یار ما نرسد

تو را در این سخن انکار کار ما نرسد

Although beauty-sellers have come to display

No one reaches our beloved in beauty and grace

اگر چه حسن فروشان به جلوه آمده‌اند

کسی به حسن و ملاحت به یار ما نرسد

By right of old companionship that no confidant of secrets

Reaches our single-minded right-fulfilling friend

به حق صحبت دیرین که هیچ محرم راز

به یار یک جهت حق گزار ما نرسد

Thousand patterns rise from creation's pen and one

Doesn't reach heart-pleasing pattern of our beloved

هزار نقش برآید ز کلک صنع و یکی

به دلپذیری نقش نگار ما نرسد

Thousand coins they bring to existence's market

One doesn't reach coin of our standard-bearer

هزار نقد به بازار کائنات آرند

یکی به سکه صاحب عیار ما نرسد

Alas life's caravan that they went so

That their dust doesn't reach air of our land

دریغ قافله عمر کان چنان رفتند

که گردشان به هوای دیار ما نرسد

O heart don't suffer from envious ones' pain and be confident

That bad doesn't reach our hopeful mind

دلا ز رنج حسودان مرنج و واثق باش

که بد به خاطر امیدوار ما نرسد

Live so that if you become path's dust to anyone

Heart's dust doesn't reach from our pathway

چنان بزی که اگر خاک ره شوی کس را

غبار خاطری از رهگذار ما نرسد

Hafez burned and I fear that explanation of his story

Doesn't reach ear of our successful king

بسوخت حافظ و ترسم که شرح قصه او

به سمع پادشه کامگار ما نرسد