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First Line: O cupbearer! Bring the joy of youth; bring cup after cup of red
Last Line: Give cup after cup hafiz; pour, whether it be sin or sanctity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din
Subject(s): Longing; Youth


O CUPBEARER! bring the joy of youth; bring cup after cup
of red
wine.
Bring medicine for the disease of love; bring wine, which
is the balm of old and young.
Do not grieve for the revolution of time, that it wheeled thus
and not
thus. Touch the lute in peace.
Wisdom is very wearisome; bring for its neck the noose of
wine.
When the rose goes, say "Go gladly," and drink wine, red like
the rose.
If the moan of the turtle does not remain, what matter? Bring
music
in the jug of wine.
The sun is wine and the moon the cup. Pour the sun into
the moon.
To drink wine is either good or bad: drink, if it be bad or if it
be good.
Her face cannot be seen except in a dream; bring then the
medicine of sleep.
Give cup after cup Hafiz; pour, whether it be sin or sanctity.






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