Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Hafiz - Come, let's scatter roses and pour wine in the glass

Come,
let's scatter roses and pour wine in the glass,
we'll shatter heaven's roof and lay a new foundation.
If sorrow raises armies to shed the blood of lovers,
I'll join with the wine bearer so we can overthrow them.
With a sweet string at hand, play a sweet song, my friend,
so we can clap and sing a song and lose our heads in dancing.
--Hafiz (Ghani-Qazvini, no 374)' the Shambhala Guide to Sufism' Carl.W Ernst, Ph.D.

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