{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pdh/pdh14.htm","path":"isl/pdh/pdh14.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pdh/pdh14.htm","text":"Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, by Getrude Lowthian Bell, [1897]\nWHERE is my ruined life, and where the fame\n Of noble deeds?\n Look on my long-drawn road, and whence it came,\n And where it leads!\nCan drunkenness be linked to piety\n And good repute?\n Where is the preacher's holy monody,\n Where is the lute?\nFrom monkish cell and lying garb released,\n Oh heart of mine,\n Where is the Tavern fane, the Tavern priest,\n Where is the wine?\nPast days of meeting, let the memory\n Of you be sweet!\n Where are those glances fled, and where for me\n Reproaches meet?\nHis friend's bright face warms not the enemy\n When love is done\u2014\n Where is the extinguished lamp that made night day,\n Where is the sun?\nBalm to mine eyes the dust, my head I bow\n Upon thy stair.\n Where shall I go, where from thy presence? thou\n Art everywhere.\nLook not upon the dimple of her chin,\n Danger lurks there!\n Where wilt thou hide, oh trembling heart, fleeing in\n Such mad haste\u2014where?\nTo steadfastness and patience, friend, ask not\n If Hafiz keep\u2014\n Patience and steadfastness I have forgot,\n And where is sleep?","title":"Poems from the Divan of Hafiz: The Poems: XII. Where is my ruined life, and where the fame of noble deeds?","type":"page"}