"جولة إلى شيراز عبر طريق كازرون وفيروز آباد مع ملاحظات متعددة حول سلوك الفُرس، عاداتهم، قوانينهم، لغتهم، وأدبهم، أُضيف إليها تاريخ بلاد فارس من موت كريم خان إلى سقوط سلالة زند" [‎٢‎١‎٥] (٣٦٢/٢٤١)

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" My hopes opened, like the rose, when I beheld the coun
tenance of my beloved; I devote the heads of my rivals to perish
by the flinty stone.
« I will seat my love, like a queen, on a bed of roses; I will
make her a garland of the hyacinth, and her bracelets shalt he of
jessamine.
I have not been educated in the road, or in the rites of preju
dice;^ why should I abuse the drunkard or the wanton ?
" Elated, like the blossoming rose, I call to my mind the banquet
of the king; I seize the bowl, and, from excess of joy, tear open my
vest.-f
" I am neither a judge, nor a priest, nor a censor, nor a lawyer:
Why should I forbid the use of wine ?
" Should I chance to get a .kiss from the lips of my love, I should
immediately become young, and live another age.
« Hafiz is abused for drinking wine in private; for the future he
will drink it to the notes of the harp and the flute."
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" Conceal the vernal rose-bud with the dark hyacinth; yes, veil
thy face, and destroy the world.
" Open, like the narcissus, thy sleepy eyes,J and let the upright
narcissus droop from envy of thee.
Lugmupurkezee, an epithet which expresses prejudice in much stronger language than I can
it.
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