Khajeh Shaseddin Mohammad Hafiz Shirazi
"My Bird"

My soul is a scared bird, the highest heaven is nest
Fretting within its body-bars, if finds on earth its nest

When rising from its dusty heap this bird of mine would soar
'Twin find upon the lofty gate the nest it had before

Sidrah would receive my bird, when it has winged its way
And on Empyrean's top, my falcon's foot would stay

Over the ample field of earth is fortune's shadow cast
Where upon wings and pennons borne this bird of mine has passed

No spot in the two worlds it owns, above the sphere its goal
Its body from the quarry is, from "No Place" is its soul

This only in glorious world my bird its splendor shows
Rosy bowers of Paradise its daily food bestows

Calligrapher: Mohammad Salahshour