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The Glow of Your Presence

by Hafiz
(1320 - 1389) Timeline

English version by
David and Sabrineh Fideler

Original Language
Persian/Farsi
Muslim / Sufi
14th Century

Where have you taken your sweet song?
Come back and play me a tune.

I never really cared for the things of this world.
It was the glow of your presence
that filled it with beauty.

 

 

-- from Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, Translated by David Fideler / Translated by Sabrineh Fideler

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Themes

  Honey
 
 
 
 


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