{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pdh/pdh17.htm","path":"isl/pdh/pdh17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pdh/pdh17.htm","text":"Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, by Getrude Lowthian Bell, [1897]\nRETURN! that to a heart wounded full sore\n Valiance and strength may enter in; return!\n And Life shall pause at the deserted door,\n The cold dead body breathe again and burn.\n Oh come! and touch mine eyes, of thy sweet grace,\n For I am blind to all but to thy face.\n Open the gates and bid me see once more!\nLike to a cruel Ethiopian band,\n Sorrow despoiled the kingdom of my heart\n Return! glad Lord of Rome, and free the land;\n Before thine arms the foe shall break and part.\n See now, I hold a mirror to mine eyes,\n And nought but thy reflection therein lies;\n The glass speaks truth to them that understand.\nNight is with child, hast thou not heard men say?\n \"Night is with child! what will she bring to birth?\"\n I sit and ask the stars when thou'rt away.\n Oh come! and when the nightingale of mirth\n Pipes in the Spring-awakened garden ground,\n In Hafiz\u2019 heart shall ring a sweeter sound,\n Diviner nightingales attune their lay.","title":"Poems from the Divan of Hafiz: The Poems: XV. Return! tha...","type":"page"}