THE jewel of the secret treasury
Is still the same as once it was ; the seal
Upon Love's treasure casket, and the key,
Are still what thieves can neither break nor steal ;
Still among lovers loyalty is found,
And therefore faithful eyes still strew the ground
With the same pearls that mine once strewed for thee.
excerpt poem XXXIII,
POEMS FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ
TRANSLATED BY GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL 1897
Hafez

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