You who have everything you desire in the world,

What care do you have for the state of the weak and helpless?

Ask for the life and heart of your servant and take the soul,

For you have authority over free men.

You have no middle ground, and I am amazed that every hour,

You mediate among the assembly of beauties.

The whiteness of your face has no worthy adornment because

You have a darkness of musk-colored script on the rose.

Drink wine, for you are always light-spirited and graceful,

Especially at the moment when you have a heavy head (are feeling down).

Do not reproach us more than this and inflict injustice upon our hearts,

Do not do everything you can, for you have the power to do so.

If you have a hundred thousand arrows of cruelty at your disposal,

You hold them aimed at the life of my weary soul in your bow.

Endure the constant cruelty of rivals and the injustice of the envious,

For it is easy if you have a kind beloved.

If you have access to union with the friend for even a moment,

Go, for you have everything you desire in the world.

Since you carry away flowers in your skirt from this garden, Hafez,

What care do you have for the lament and cry of the gardener?