Ghazal 371: We have laid down our dawn lesson on the road to the tavern

ما درس سحر در ره میخانه نهادیم
محصول دعا در ره جانانه نهادیم

در خرمن صد زاهد عاقل زند آتش
این داغ که ما بر دل دیوانه نهادیم

سلطان ازل گنج غم عشق به ما داد
تا روی در این منزل ویرانه نهادیم

در دل ندهم ره پس از این مهر بتان را
مهر لب او بر در این خانه نهادیم

در خرقه از این بیش منافق نتوان بود
بنیاد از این شیوه رندانه نهادیم

چون می‌رود این کشتی سرگشته که آخر
جان در سر آن گوهر یک دانه نهادیم

المنة لله که چو ما بی‌دل و دین بود
آن را که لقب عاقل و فرزانه نهادیم

قانع به خیالی ز تو بودیم چو حافظ
یا رب چه گداهمت و بیگانه نهادیم

We have laid down our dawn lesson on the road to the tavern;
we have laid the harvest of our prayers on the road of the beloved.

It sets fire to the harvest of a hundred sensible ascetics,
this brand that we have laid upon our maddened heart.

The Sultan of pre-eternity gave us the treasure of the grief of love
when we set our face towards this ruined halting place.

After this I will give no way into my heart to the love of idols;
we have set the seal of his lip upon the door of this house.

One cannot go on being a hypocrite in the cloak any longer than this;
we have laid our foundations on this way of the rends.

How does this wandering ship sail on, now that at last
we have staked our life on that single matchless pearl?

God be thanked that he was as lost to heart and faith as we are,
the one to whom we gave the title of wise and prudent.

We were content with a mere image of you, like Hafez;
O Lord, how beggarly in aspiration, and how estranged, we are!