1. Give me a drink from your sweet lips
For separation has long changed my state

2. And sleeplessness has long tortured my eyes
Until sorrow lamented my passion's fate

3. I've become from intense love no more than a phantom
No one sees me when I call but my shadow

4. Have mercy, be kind, show me favor
And cure me of my sickness after disdain, with union

5. For I have been patient with passion and its humiliation
When I was struck by arrows from the beloved's glances

6. And I have borne all the injustice from you as a neighbor
In my heart, so I excelled at it and am no weakling

7. How can there be joy when I've arrived at the field
With Hafez, most eloquent in verse of all creation?

8. Oh Muhammad, the seat of the caliphate
Its lights shine with your continual glory

9. You came to Egypt its defender, loyal to its affection
Despite those who spoke against you in its lands

10. You attained what you hoped so he died of vexation
Extinguished while you live graced with favor

11. You brought good tidings so I said, recording as a chronicler
"Congratulations Hafez on your most auspicious arrival."