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Updated: June 13, 2025
He glanced at her, and Marcella's eyes fell; a moment after, there was a suspicion of colour in her cheek. 'What are you reading? Peak asked abruptly, but in a voice of more conventional note. 'Still Hafiz. 'I envy your power of abstraction. 'Yet I hear that you are deeply concerned about the locomotive powers of the diatomaceaoe? Their eyes met, and they laughed not very mirthfully.
When the Amir Dost Mahomed Khan came to Peshawur in 1856, he was accompanied by Hafiz Ji, a leading mullah of Afghanistan and a great doctrinarian; to whom came the learned amongst the Faithful, to discuss the tenets of their religion and to listen to the wisdom of the wise.
In fact, it cannot be too often said that love poetry, like love itself, is human and eternal, not of a people and an age, but of all men and all times. Though fashions change in poetry as in other ornament, still the language of love has a long life, and age after age the same conceits and terms of endearment meet us. Thus Hafiz has these lines,
Not even the thought of Jimmy should deter him. At a few minutes before eleven he went back to his rooms, unlocked his despatch box, and drew out the key of the gate of Mrs. Clarke's garden. He thrust it into his pocket and set out on the short walk to the Villa Hafiz. The night was dark and cloudy and very still.
Having finished her address, the beauteous princess let fall her veil, and was silent. A shout of applause was followed by wild strummings and tunings of mandolins, and occasional scratching of heads or turbans, to remember all that Hafiz had ever written, or to aid their attempts at improviso versification. Time flew on, and no one of the young rayahs appeared inclined to begin.
Hafiz describes a girl's cheeks as roses within a net of violets, the net referring to the beard. Jehudah Halevi uses this selfsame image, and Moses ibn Ezra and the rest also employ manly figures of speech in portraying beautiful women. All this goes to show how much, besides rhyme and versification, medieval Hebrew love poetry owed to Arabic models.
The echoes took up the call, 'La-la-la! And an answer came from the watch-tower hidden round the curve of the hill, 'What is it, Shahbaz Khan? Shahbaz Khan replied in the high-pitched voice of the mountaineer: 'Hast thou seen? The answer came back: 'Yes. God deliver us from all evil spirits! There was a pause, and then: 'Hafiz Ullah, I am alone! Come to me!
Its cheerful and sunny light of the common day enhances instead of obscures the light that falls from the highest heaven of the spirit. Saadi or Hafiz or Omar might have fathered him, but only a New England mother could have borne him.
We were ushered into an audience-room of great extent, with a low carved roof and some old-fashioned furniture, the divan being in the corner, and the windows looking over the precipice to the Danube below. Hafiz Pasha, the same who commanded at the battle of Nezib, was about fifty-five, and a gentleman in air and manner, with a grey beard.
Shall we not indulge this evening in the water of the Giaour?" "What saith Hafiz? It is for wine to exalt men, and raise them beyond uncertainty and doubt. It overfloweth us with courage, and imparts visions of bliss." "Wallah Thaib, it is well said, Mustapha," said the pacha, taking a cup of coffee, presented by the Greek slave. Mustapha also received his cup.
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