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 1 Pre     |        birth of Hafiz, that is to say in the beginning of the
 2 Pre     |          all that read them." Men say that the curse still hangs
 3 Pre     |           playing with words that say one thing and mean something
 4 Pre     |     struck root there. That is to say, that there had grown up,
 5 Pre     |       fixed upon One alone: "They say that the world has no external
 6 Pre     |    drunkenness of the Sufi poets, say their interpreters, is nothing
 7 Pre     |         contradictory. "A man may say," remarks the author of
 8 Pre     |          to Abraham, because they say that though Pharaoh and
 9 Pre     |         it permitted to a tree to say, 'I am God,'" writes the
10 Pre     |            why then may not a man say it?" And again: "In God
11 Pre     |           doctrines: "How shall I say that existence is mine when
12 III(*)  |           upon her face. And they say that Bilkis took the letter
13 VIII(*) |       means also sorrow, and they say that the first of our fathers
14 IX(*)   |       this verse to him. I should say that the anecdote was of
15 XV      |           hast thou not heard men say?~"Night is with child! what
16 XVI(*)  |       lovers of wine"--that is to say the Sufis, who will be equally
17 XVII    |          finger has writ, who can say.~Bring the cup in thine
18 XIX(*)  |         it is hardly necessary to say, poor. I should think that
19 XXI(*)  |        and tassels."He goes on to say: "Most Persian dervishes,
20 XXI(*)  | Adventures.~Stanza 2.--That is to say, the prayer-carpet of the
21 XXIV    |        Faith be such as thou dost say,~Alas! my Hafiz, that this
22 XXVI    |       upon me set thy lips!" they say.~What man can tell where
23 XXVI(*) |        the Turks and the Persians say that she was a daughter
24 XXVI(*) |       Jerusalem, and carried off, say the Persians, the true Cross,
25 XXXII   |        drink red wine than tears, say I,~While the lute sings;
26 XXXIV(*)|       names of these things if ye say truth. They answered, Praise
27 XXXIV(*)|          different opinions. Some say it was an ear of wheat,
28 XXXVII  |         Thou shalt be pure," they say,~"Before unto the pure thou
29 XXXIX(*)|        Samir. Al Samiri belonged, say the Mahommadans, to a certain
30 XXXIX(*)|       until many ages later. Some say that he was a proselyte,