Ghazal 494: O heart, if you come up out of that pit in the chin

ای دل! گر از آن چاه زنخدان به درآیی
هر جا که روی، زود، پشیمان به درآیی

هش دار که گر وسوسهٔ عقل کنی گوش
آدم‌صفت از روضهٔ رضوان به درآیی

شاید که به آبی، فلکت، دست نگیرد
گر تشنه‌لب از چشمهٔ حیوان به درآیی

جان می‌دهم از حسرت دیدار تو، چون صبح
باشد که چو خورشید درخشان به درآیی

چندان، چو صبا بر تو گمارم دم همت
کز غنچه چو گل، خرم و خندان به درآیی

در تیره‌شب هجر تو، جانم به لب آمد
وقت است که همچون مه تابان به درآیی

بر رهگذرت بسته‌ام از دیده، دو صد جوی
تا بو که تو چون سرو خرامان به درآیی

حافظ! مکن اندیشه که آن یوسف مه‌رو
بازآید و از کلبهٔ احزان به درآیی!

O heart, if you come up out of that pit in the chin,
wherever you go, you will soon come away regretting it.

Take care: if you give ear to the whisperings of reason,
you will come out of the garden of paradise as Adam did.

It may be that the sky will not help you with a drop of water,
if you come away with thirsty lips from the spring of life.

I am giving my life in longing to see you, like the dawn;
perhaps you will come out like the shining sun.

I will set the breath of my resolve on you, like the east wind,
until you come out of the bud like a rose, fresh and laughing.

In the dark night of separation from you my soul has come to my lips;
it is time that you came out like the shining moon.

I have set two hundred streams running from my eyes across your path,
in the hope that you will come out like a swaying cypress.

Hafez, have no anxious thought, for that Joseph with the face of the moon
will return, and you will come out of the hut of sorrows.