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Once gain Heart needs ecstasy.
Sakî (1), bring to us your bottle !
For Heart desires the purple wine
Which instantly appeases its hunger .
Sakî, if your face is like the full moon
And your hairs like the dark night,
Then let’s your wine become fire and burn liver !
And it will be remedy for t heheart.
Thus you will refresh our hearts
and inflame our chests.
Those who drink the wine poured from your hands
Can run hundred stages without halt.
Whithout the light and the fire of Love,
Without the Designer and the power of Creator,
We are not able to reach Union.
(Light is for us and dark is the night) (2)
This fire massing and washing the Heart,
My heart claim after it.
And here come Newroz and the New Year,
When a such light is rising.
As so long as the shining wine
Won’t colour your prayer carpet,
You’ll stay far from the King’s daughter
and her ivory neck, precious jewel.
Jewel the crystal neck,
Basilic scent and flowered roses,
Hay hay your charming braids,
Divided by your spot beauty !
Your Love let us meanless (3).
Please, raise your hairs from your spot beauty !
Your locked hairs are amber
And even China would pay tribute.
And not only Kurdistan,
But Shiraz and Yang and Wan also,
All of them would willingly offert,
And even Ispahan would pay tribute.
Dark eyes murderous bows,
Circles and spheres full of angels.
(By her love my Age is gone
And Love left me for the whirling dance) (4)
The Beautiful Witnesses (5) are ornamented with thousands colours.
Dance and semâ reach a Perfect level,
Today, Mollah (6), we have hundred hearts.
Come Sakî, and bring to us your bottle !
Melayê Cizîrî, the “Mollah of Cizîr”, Dîwan, 26.
(1) : Cup-bearer.
(2) : It means of course the different steps of a mystical travel.
(3) : In Arabic : it is the name of the Lover union maqam.
(4) : Litterally “sonless” like Muhammad ; syn. of misfortune.
(5) : In Arabic.
(6) : “Shahîd” mean here “Who testify the existence of Beauty”.
7) : The Mollah of Cirzîr like to call himself, especially at the end of his poems, in his usual way of signing.