After Hafiz
Imdad Imam
 
The Nightingale in verdant bowers  
             My soul with song of Love inspires;  
The Roses bloom with vernal showers;  
             My Heart with Passion Flora fires,  
             Then let you liquid ruby flow,  
             Taza ba taza, naw ba naw   
What gladness whispering Love can bring!  
             What bliss can Beauty’s charms unfold!  
Then seek at once the bowers of spring,  
             And think no more of sordid Gold.  
             In sparkling Goblet drown thy woe,  
             Taza ba taza, naw ba naw   
What Casuists preach and Zealots pray  
             Ah! none but Fools and Clowns admire.  
When Roses bloom, the Bulbuls lay  
             Is all that can the soul inspire.  
             Thy ears to whispering Love bestow,  
             Taza ba taza, naw ba naw   
I love and I must die for Love;  
             This passion I can ne’er forgo.  
My fate’s decreed by One above.  
             It cannot change. Let Mentors know  
             The One above is friend, not foe,  
             Taza ba taza, naw ba naw   
The lays of Hafiz are so sweet,  
             But those of Imdad sweeter still.  
Then Minstrel sings his notes and greets  
             My ears with all thy songster’s skill.  
             In cadence sweet let music flow,  
             Taza ba taza, naw ba naw   
 
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