batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l1417-l1552
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l1417-l1552
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
passage_locator:
label: LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION / FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ; lines
1417-1552
start: '1417'
end: '1552'
translation: Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A sequence of translated Hafiz lyrics speaks of grief in absence, the beloved’s
village, tears and sighs, an offer to trade great cities for the beloved’s mole,
wine and the cup-bearer, the inadequacy of human wisdom before the Hidden, allusions
to Joseph and Zuleika, sufficiency in wine, nature, love, and song, refusal to
seek Paradise away from the beloved’s village, reliance on Fate, present joy against
future anxiety, judgment after death, and a final scene of rose, nightingale,
Sufis, wine, repentance, rock, and goblet.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker addresses a grieving Heart afflicted by absence and says its lamentations,
tears, and sighs are not in vain.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A wind from the beloved’s village moves through garden alleys, and a rose
is described as tearing its robe.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker offers his heart to a Turkish maid of Shiraz and says he would
barter Bokhara and Samarkand for the mole on her cheek.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker calls on the cup-bearer to bring the remaining wine and contrasts
Paradise with the fountain of Ruknabad and the rose bowers of Mosalla.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Soft-voiced Lulis are said to have filled the city with blood and tumult and
to have plundered the speaker’s heart like Turkish robbers.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker describes himself as a beggar before a dowered mistress whose
beautiful face needs no ornament or maid’s art.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: The poem says that the key to the Hidden is vainly sought and that human wisdom
has not unlocked the gate.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:8
text: The lute is said to speak of Joseph’s beauty, and the minstrel knows that
Zuleika came forth when Love parted the curtains of modesty.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:9
text: The speaker receives the beloved’s ill words as sweet because they come from
ruby-and-sugar lips, and advises the fair Love to heed wise counsel.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:10
text: Hafiz is called to sing again, and the listening heavens are imagined as loosening
the Pleiades’ chain over his verse.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:11
text: The speaker declares that a flower-colored cheek, the earth’s flowery close,
a cypress shadow, and a brimming cup of wine are enough for him.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:12
text: The speaker contrasts the heavenly palace of the virtuous with his own desire,
as drunkard and beggar, for the temple of the grape filled with red wine.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:13
text: A river flowing past the seated listener is used to state that life flows
away swiftly and sweetly.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:14
text: The speaker says he has enough of loss and gain because he has Love and the
joy of her companionship, including a healing lip laid on his lip.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:15
text: The speaker asks not to have his naked soul sent from its poor house to seek
Paradise and says his spirit flies back to the beloved’s village even if heaven
and earth are unrolled before him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:16
text: At the door of Kismet, Hafiz is said to have no just complaint, with a mind
like clear water and a song that swells and dies on the ear.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:17
text: A western breeze from the garden of Heaven blows through the speaker’s earthly
garden, and the speaker asks for wine, the giver of mirth.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:18
text: The beggar may boast himself a king, with a ripening field as banquet hall
and cloud-shadow as tent.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:19
text: The speaker urges valuing the present and building a fort with wine against
the world; when the fortress falls, the victor will knead bricks from the speaker’s
dust.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:20
text: The speaker asks not to be entered in the Book of Doom and not to be judged,
because Fate may have written secretly on one’s forehead.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:21
text: After Hafiz’s spirit has fled, followers are told to accompany his bier with
sighs; though an ocean of sin has closed over his head, he may find a place in
God’s Paradise.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:22
text: The rose reddens, the bud bursts, the nightingale is drunk with joy, Sufis
are hailed as lovers of wine, and a goblet cleaves the rock of repentance in two.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Hafiz
description: Named poetic figure addressed or spoken of in several stanzas; associated
with hidden love, song, death, bier, sin, and possible Paradise.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Heart
description: The addressed Heart is afflicted by grief, absence, lamentation, tears,
and sighs.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Beloved / Love / mistress
description: Female beloved or Love figure associated with village, cheek, mole,
sweet lips, companionship, healing kiss, and the speaker’s returning spirit.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Turkish maid of Shiraz
description: A beloved addressed as a Turkish maid whose hand might take the speaker’s
heart and whose cheek bears a mole.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Cup-bearer
description: Figure asked to bring all remaining wine.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Soft-voiced Lulis
description: Figures for whom the speaker sighs and who are said to plunder the
peace of his heart like robbers.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Joseph
description: Biblical/Qur'anic figure invoked for beauty in a song the lute will
speak.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Zuleika
description: Figure said to come forth when Love parts the curtains of modesty.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Sufis
description: Group hailed as lovers of wine in the final lyric.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Nightingale
description: Bird described as drunk with joy when the rose reddens and the bud
bursts.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Fate / Kismet
description: Impersonal determining power associated with a door, a secret finger,
and writing on the forehead.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: poet-singer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Hafiz is called to sing again, and his verse is attended by the heavens.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:2
label: grieving sufferer of absence
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The Heart is addressed as afflicted by absence, tears, sighs, and lamentations.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: beloved figure
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: The beloved receives the speaker’s heart, has cheek, mole, lips, village,
companionship, and healing touch.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: wine-server
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The cup-bearer is directly asked to bring wine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: heart-plunderer
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The Lulis are said to rob and plunder the peace of the speaker’s heart.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: exemplary lovers from inherited story
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:8
basis: Joseph and Zuleika are invoked together through beauty, song, and Love parting
modesty’s curtains.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: dead or dying sinner who may reach Paradise
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: After Hafiz’s spirit flees and the ocean of sin closes over him, he may still
find a place in God’s Paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:8
label: wine-loving religious group
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The Sufis are hailed as lovers of wine when wine is proclaimed to the thirsty
world.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:9
label: joyful garden bird
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The nightingale is drunk with joy beside rose and bud imagery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:10
label: determiner of destiny
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Kismet and Fate are linked to complaint, judgment, and secret writing on
the forehead.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: beloved’s village
literal_form: village of the beloved
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- id: sym:2
label: wine and cup
literal_form: wine, brimming cup, red wine, goblet
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: sym:3
label: garden and rose
literal_form: garden alleys, rose, rose bowers, garden of Heaven, garden of earth
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: sym:4
label: Hidden gate and key
literal_form: key to the Hidden and locked gate
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: Pleiades’ chain
literal_form: Pleiades’ chain loosed by the heavens over verse
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:6
label: river of passing life
literal_form: river flowing past the seated listener
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:7
label: clear-water mind
literal_form: mind like water clear
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:8
label: Paradise
literal_form: Garden of Paradise, heavenly palace, God’s Paradise
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: sym:9
label: fortress of wine
literal_form: fort built with wine against the assault of the world
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:10
label: Book of Doom
literal_form: Book of Doom in which the speaker asks not to have his name placed
associated_figures:
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:11
label: forehead writing of Fate
literal_form: secret writing on a white forehead by Fate’s finger
associated_figures:
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:12
label: ocean of sin
literal_form: ocean of sin closed over Hafiz’s head
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:13
label: rock of repentance cleft by goblet
literal_form: rock-like repentance split in two by a goblet
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:14
label: lamp and torches
literal_form: lamp of the synagogue and monastic torches
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Grief in absence and wind from the beloved’s village
summary: The speaker addresses the suffering Heart, asserts that tears and sighs
are not wasted, and describes a wind from the beloved’s village moving through
the garden.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Exchange of heart and cities for the beloved’s mole
summary: The speaker addresses a Turkish maid of Shiraz, offers his heart, and says
he would trade Bokhara and Samarkand for the mole on her cheek while calling for
wine.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Heart plundered and Hidden gate locked
summary: The poem describes heart-plundering Lulis, the speaker’s poverty before
a mistress, the futility of seeking the Hidden with human wisdom, and the tale
of Joseph and Zuleika.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Sweet rebuke and cosmic attention to song
summary: The beloved’s harsh speech is received as sweet, wise counsel is urged,
and Hafiz is called to sing again while the heavens attend his verse.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Enoughness of wine, nature, love, and passing life
summary: The speaker declares that cheek, flowers, cypress-shadow, wine, the temple
of the grape, a river, and the companionship of Love are enough.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Refusal of Paradise away from the beloved’s village
summary: The speaker asks not to be sent from the soul’s poor house to seek Paradise
and says the spirit returns to the beloved’s village despite heaven and earth.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Present joy, beggar kingship, and wine fortress
summary: A heavenly breeze enters the earthly garden, the beggar becomes king in
the field, and the speaker urges present joy and a wine-built fort against the
world.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:8
label: Judgment, Fate, death, and possible Paradise
summary: The speaker asks not to be judged in the Book of Doom because Fate writes
secretly; after Hafiz’s death, despite sin, he may find God’s Paradise.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
- sym:10
- sym:11
- sym:12
- sym:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:9
label: Rose, nightingale, Sufis, and repentance cleft by goblet
summary: The final lyric presents the reddened rose, bursting bud, joyful nightingale,
Sufis hailed as wine-lovers, and repentance split like a rock by a goblet.
figure_refs:
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Longing in absence from the beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The Heart grieves in absence, the wind comes from the beloved’s village,
and the speaker’s spirit later flies back to that village rather than seeking
Paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage uses lyric beloved language; whether the beloved is human,
divine, or both is not explicitly resolved in the provided text.
- id: motif:2
label: Wine as sufficient joy and spiritual countervalue
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: Wine, cup, temple of the grape, and goblet recur as chosen goods over conventional
virtue, repentance, anxiety, and judgment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage strongly features wine imagery, but explicit mystical annihilation
is not stated in this excerpt.
- id: motif:3
label: Hidden wisdom behind a locked gate
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- mystical_quest
basis: The poem says the key to the Hidden is vainly sought and that human wisdom
has not unlocked the gate.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes the limit of human wisdom more than a completed
quest.
- id: motif:4
label: Beloved over Paradise
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
- mystical_quest
basis: The speaker asks not to send his soul to seek Paradise and says that even
if heaven and earth are unrolled, his spirit returns to the beloved’s village.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The text does not explicitly identify the beloved with God; the motif
label is based on the preference for the beloved over Paradise.
- id: motif:5
label: Judgment after death and hope of mercy
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: The speaker mentions the Book of Doom, asks not to be judged, speaks of Fate’s
secret writing, and says that after Hafiz’s spirit flees he may find a place in
God’s Paradise despite sin.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: No detailed afterlife journey map is given; only judgment, death, sin,
and Paradise are present.
- id: motif:6
label: Sacred or extravagant exchange for the beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: The speaker offers his heart and would barter Bokhara and Samarkand for the
beloved’s mole.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The exchange is lyric hyperbole and is not explicitly ritual or sacred
in the passage.
- id: motif:7
label: Repentance overcome by the cup
taxonomy_refs:
- initiation
basis: The final stanza says rock-like repentance is cleft in two by a goblet while
Sufis are hailed as lovers of wine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: low
cautions: The passage suggests transformation of repentance through wine imagery,
but does not narrate a formal initiation.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 1417-1430
quote_or_summary: The Heart is afflicted by grief and absence; tears and sighs are
not vain; a wind from the beloved’s village passes through garden alleys and a
rose tears its robe.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from provided passage.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 1434-1441
quote_or_summary: The speaker addresses a Turkish maid of Shiraz, offers his heart,
would barter Bokhara and Samarkand for her mole, asks the cup-bearer for wine,
and contrasts Paradise with Ruknabad and Mosalla.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from provided passage.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 1442-1458
quote_or_summary: Soft-voiced Lulis plunder the speaker’s heart; the speaker is
a beggar before a dowered mistress; the Hidden remains behind a locked gate; Joseph
and Zuleika are invoked through beauty and Love.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from provided passage.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 1459-1470
quote_or_summary: The beloved’s bitter words are sweet to the speaker; counsel is
urged; Hafiz is called to sing again, and the heavens loosen the Pleiades’ chain
over his verse.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from provided passage.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 1474-1490
quote_or_summary: The speaker says cheek, flowers, cypress-shadow, and a brimming
cup of wine are enough; he wants the temple of the grape with red wine rather
than the heavenly palace of the virtuous; a river images life flowing away.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from provided passage.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 1491-1506
quote_or_summary: The speaker has Love and her healing companionship; he asks that
his soul not be sent to seek Paradise, because his spirit returns to the beloved’s
village; Hafiz has no complaint at Kismet’s door and has a mind like clear water.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from provided passage.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 1510-1524
quote_or_summary: A western breeze from Heaven’s garden enters the earthly garden;
the speaker asks for wine, says the beggar may be a king in the field, urges valuing
the present, and tells the listener to build a fort with wine against the world.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from provided passage.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 1525-1535
quote_or_summary: The speaker distrusts a foe, mentions a synagogue lamp and monastic
torches, says he is drunken, asks not to be placed in the Book of Doom or judged,
and refers to Fate’s secret writing on a forehead.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from provided passage.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 1536-1541
quote_or_summary: When Hafiz’s spirit has fled, followers should accompany his bier
with sighs; though the ocean of sin has closed over him, he may find a place in
God’s Paradise.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from provided passage.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 1545-1552
quote_or_summary: The rose reddens, the bud bursts, the nightingale is drunk with
joy, Sufis are hailed as wine-lovers, wine is proclaimed to the thirsty world,
and a goblet cleaves the rock of repentance.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from provided passage.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied English passage. Motif labels involving
Sufi or mystical interpretation are cautious because the excerpt often uses lyric
ambiguity rather than explicit doctrinal explanation. No comparison claims were
added because the passage itself does not make a cross-textual comparison beyond
internal allusions.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
All evidence is summarized from the provided public-domain passage. Available taxonomy references were used only where supported by explicit imagery or repeated thematic language.
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