Lost Joseph is coming home to Canaan some day,
This shack of sorrow will burst in roses flowering.

Don't give in, sad heart, your time will come
Your restless mind will rest serene

When the spring of life throws itself upon the meadow throne
you'll draw down around you, o sweet song bird, a canopy of roses

Though today though tomorrow the spheres turn against our desire
they won't turn the same way wrong forever

Keep hope, listen. Behind the mystery screen unfolds
a love affair yet ascertain, don't grieve..

As the tide tears the moorings of your existence, heart, away.
Noah is your boatman in the flood don't grieve.

If you set out in longing on the pilgrimage path,
at the Arabian desert thorn's scratch and tear, don't grieve

Your position is perilous and your destination far away,
but no road goes on endless forever don't grieve

Space and spies and get-betweens may keep you
from the one you love, but destiny's author knows it all don't grieve.

In this dark and lonely corner, Hafez, pray
through the night and read Qur'an, don' grieve