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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz: Notes: IX

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Stanza 1.—This poem is addressed to the Vizir of Sultan Oweis of Baghdad, Hadji Kawameddin, who founded a college for Hafiz in Shiraz. With true Persian exaggeration the poet must needs write to his patron much in the same terms in which a lover would write to his mistress; but his words, though they sound strangely to our ears, are nothing more than the Oriental way of saying, "Awake, my St. John!" The mystical interpretation of the first few lines is said to be: As the wine glows in the cup…

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz: Notes: IX

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