batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2337-l2463
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2337-l2463
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
passage_locator:
label: XVIII / XXIII / XXVII / XXVIII; lines 2337-2463
start: '2337'
end: '2463'
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: What though the river of mortality / Round the unstable house of Life doth
roar, / Weep not, oh heart, Noah shall pilot thee
summary: The passage includes lyric remembrance of a beloved, tavern wine, and poetic
inspiration; a consolatory poem urging the heart not to weep through images of
Joseph’s return, spring, pilgrimage, mortality as a roaring river, and Noah piloting
an ark; praise of Shiraz, Ruknabad, Khizr’s life-giving fount, Gabriel’s peace,
the east wind, and the beloved; and a final spring-renewal image in which dawn
wind, chalices, trees, flowers, and wine mark the world’s return to youth.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker repeatedly asks whether the beloved has forgotten past moments
of exchanged glances, reproach, intimacy, tavern drinking, and poetic arrangement.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: obs:2
text: The beloved’s lips are compared to Jesus’ breath as having healing grace.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker says he found Love’s passionate wisdom hidden inside the tavern,
not in the mosque.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker’s heart is compared to moths that scorch their wings and return
to the beloved’s torch-like cheek.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The poem says Joseph shall return from Canaan after his face has been hidden
for a little time.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The poem repeatedly tells the heart not to weep and promises the return of
joy, peace, spring, roses, and hope.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: A pilgrim nearing Mecca is wounded by the thorny maghilan, while the desert
is said to bloom again.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: Mortality is described as a roaring river around the unstable house of Life,
and Noah is said to pilot the heart’s ark to the desired shore.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The speaker says God counts tears, knows misery, and has heard weeping.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: Shiraz is praised as a peerless site and God is asked to guard its gate from
Misfortune.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:11
text: The Ruknabad stream is compared to the fount of Khizr and is said to give
life forever.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: Gabriel’s peace is said to abide in Shiraz with the lord of its treasures.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:13
text: The speaker asks the east wind for news of the maid with drunken eyes and
says her vision sweetens solitude.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:14
text: The speaker says that if the Cup-bearer pours forth his blood for wine, his
heart should yield its crimson flood as milk flows from a mother’s bosom.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:15
text: Dawn’s wind and Spring’s chalice are described as making the ancient world
young again, while flowering plants hold brimming or scarlet cups.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Hafiz / lyric speaker
description: The speaking voice recalls the beloved, addresses his heart, praises
Shiraz, and names Hafiz in the poems.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:12
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Beloved / maid
description: A female beloved is remembered through glances, lips, cheek, and dreams;
she is also called the maid with drunken eyes.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Love
description: Love is named as the source of passionate wisdom hidden in the tavern
and as a fire behind the veil.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Jesus
description: Jesus is invoked through his breath as an image for healing grace.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Joseph
description: Joseph is said to return from Canaan after his face was hidden for
a little time.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Pilgrim
description: A pilgrim nearing Mecca is addressed as wounded by the thorny maghilan.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Noah
description: Noah is said to pilot the heart and guide its ark to the desired shore.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: God
description: God is said to favor the lovers, guard Shiraz, count tears, know misery,
and hear weeping.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Khizr
description: Khizr is invoked through a life-giving fount used to compare Ruknabad’s
stream.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Gabriel
description: Gabriel is invoked through the peace said to abide in Shiraz.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Cup-bearer
description: The Cup-bearer is imagined as pouring forth the speaker’s blood for
wine.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
roles:
- id: role:1
label: remembering lover
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker recalls former intimacy with the beloved and asks whether she
has forgotten.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: poet-reciter
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Hafiz is named in connection with verse, the Koran, recitation, and thanksgiving.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- ev:12
- id: role:3
label: beloved figure
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage centers on her glances, lips, cheek, absence, and dream-vision.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:11
- id: role:4
label: hidden wisdom and fire
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Love’s wisdom is hidden in the tavern, and Love’s fire may burn behind the
veil.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: healing comparator
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Jesus’ breath is used as a comparison for healing grace.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:6
label: returning lost figure
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Joseph is said to return from Canaan after being hidden.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: holy traveler
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The pilgrim is nearing Mecca’s holy fane on a difficult desert path.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: ark pilot
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Noah pilots the heart and guides its ark to the desired shore.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:9
label: divine guardian and witness
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: God favors, guards, counts tears, knows misery, and hears weeping.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: role:10
label: life-giving water exemplar
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The stream is likened to Khizr’s fount that gives life forever.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:11
label: peace-bearing angelic figure
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Gabriel’s peace is located in Shiraz.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:12
label: wine-pourer
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: The Cup-bearer is imagined as pouring the speaker’s blood for wine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: healing breath
literal_form: Jesus’ breath
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: tavern wisdom
literal_form: tavern, wine, goblet, ruby lips
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: desire as flame
literal_form: beloved’s torch-like cheek and moth-like heart
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: returning Joseph
literal_form: Joseph returning from Canaan
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: spring renewal
literal_form: roses, Life’s Spring, meadows, rose-leaf canopy, blooming desert
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:13
- id: sym:6
label: veil and hidden fire
literal_form: veil and Love’s fire behind it
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:7
label: pilgrim road
literal_form: Mecca, thorny maghilan, desert, road, abode
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:8
label: ark crossing mortality
literal_form: roaring river of mortality, unstable house of Life, ark, desired shore
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:9
label: life-giving stream
literal_form: Ruknabad stream compared to the fount of Khizr
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:10
label: blood as wine and milk
literal_form: blood poured for wine; milk from a mother’s bosom; crimson flood
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs:
- milk
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:11
label: spring chalices
literal_form: Spring’s chalice, judas-tree cup, wind flowers’ scarlet chalice
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Remembered beloved and tavern wisdom
summary: The speaker recalls the beloved’s glance, lips, moon-like repose, tavern
drinking, hidden wisdom, and poetic ordering of Hafiz’s thought.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Consolation through return and renewal
summary: The poem urges the heart not to weep by naming Joseph’s return, roses springing
up, Life’s Spring, hope, and the change of fate.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:3
label: Perilous journey and ark deliverance
summary: A pilgrim approaches Mecca through thorns, mortality roars as a river,
and Noah guides the heart’s ark to the desired shore.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:4
label: Divine witness amid misery
summary: The speaker says enemies persecuted him and the beloved fled, while God
counts tears and Hafiz is told to recite the Koran and litanies.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:5
label: Praise of Shiraz and life-giving waters
summary: Shiraz is praised and guarded by God; Ruknabad is a life-giving stream
like Khizr’s fount; Gabriel’s peace abides there; the wind is asked for news of
the beloved.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: scene:6
label: Cup-bearer and spring transformation
summary: The Cup-bearer is imagined as turning the speaker’s blood into wine, and
dawn and spring renew the ancient world through wine-like flowers and chalices.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:10
- sym:11
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Beloved as focus of longing and healing
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The beloved’s glance, lips, cheek, absence, and vision dominate the speaker’s
emotional and devotional language, with her lips compared to healing breath.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:11
- ev:12
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is lyric and does not explicitly identify the beloved as divine;
the taxonomy link is interpretive within a Sufi-lyric context.
- id: motif:2
label: Hidden wisdom found in the tavern rather than the mosque
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- mystical_quest
basis: The speaker says he found Love’s passionate wisdom hidden in the tavern,
which remains unknown in the mosque.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives a compressed lyric contrast, not a narrative quest sequence.
- id: motif:3
label: Return after loss or concealment
taxonomy_refs:
- return
basis: Joseph is said to return from Canaan after his face was hidden, and joy,
peace, hope, and spring are promised to return.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage uses return as consolation rather than extended narrative
plot.
- id: motif:4
label: Ark guided through the waters of mortality
taxonomy_refs:
- ark_vessel
basis: Mortality is figured as a roaring river, while Noah pilots the heart and
guides its ark to the desired shore.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The flood itself is not narrated; Noah and ark imagery are used metaphorically
for deliverance.
- id: motif:5
label: Perilous holy journey to a sacred destination
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The pilgrim nears Mecca despite thorn wounds, and the wider passage speaks
of a far goal, perilous road, and shared abode.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The pilgrim is addressed briefly; the poem does not narrate a complete
pilgrimage.
- id: motif:6
label: Seasonal renewal and world made young
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
- death_rebirth
basis: The poems promise roses, spring, blooming desert, dawn wind, and the ancient
world turning to youth again.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: Renewal is botanical and lyric; death-rebirth is metaphorical rather than
a literal resurrection scene.
- id: motif:7
label: Life-giving water
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Ruknabad’s stream is compared to the fount of Khizr and said to give life
forever.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: Available taxonomy contains symbol water but no specific life-water motif
family.
- id: motif:8
label: Surrender of blood as wine
taxonomy_refs:
- sacrifice
- sacred_exchange
basis: The speaker says that at the Cup-bearer’s word his heart should yield a crimson
flood if his blood is poured forth for wine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
confidence: medium
cautions: The image is conditional and lyric; no ritual sacrifice is explicitly
performed.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage explicitly uses Joseph’s return as a consolatory pattern for
the restoration of joy after hiddenness or loss.
claim_level: same_function
target: Joseph return pattern in Abrahamic/Islamic narrative memory
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: Only a brief allusion is present; the passage does not recount the
Joseph story.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage explicitly uses Noah and an ark to frame deliverance through
dangerous waters as a metaphor for the heart’s passage through mortality.
claim_level: same_function
target: Noah ark deliverance pattern
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The flood narrative is not told; the ark image functions metaphorically
within lyric consolation.
- id: claim:3
claim: The passage invokes Khizr’s fount as a comparison for life-giving water at
Ruknabad.
claim_level: same_function
target: Khizr life-giving water motif in Islamic/Persian tradition
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage names Khizr only through a simile and gives no fuller Khizr
narrative.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: XXVIII, stanza 1-2
quote_or_summary: The beloved’s stolen glance, reproving eyes, red lips like Jesus’
healing breath, and moon-like sleeping form are remembered.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: XXVIII, stanza 3 and final stanza
quote_or_summary: The speaker, drunk within the tavern gates, finds Love’s passionate
wisdom hidden there and later recalls the beloved arranging Hafiz’s inmost thought
into verse.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: XXVIII, stanza 4
quote_or_summary: The beloved’s cheek is a torch lighting desire; the speaker’s
heart is like moths that scorch their wings and return.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: XXIX, stanza 1
quote_or_summary: "“From Canaan Joseph shall return”; the poem tells the listener
to weep no more and says roses will spring from the bare floor and joy shall return."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short quotation from public domain translation.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: XXIX, stanza 2
quote_or_summary: Life’s Spring returns to green meadows; a night minstrel casts
rose leaves; the world’s secret remains hidden, yet Love’s fire may burn behind
the veil.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: XXIX, stanza 3
quote_or_summary: The turning wheel of Fate will change; a pilgrim nears Mecca despite
thorn wounds, and the desert blooms again.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: XXIX, stanza 4
quote_or_summary: The river of mortality roars around Life’s unstable house; Noah
pilots the heart and guides its ark to the desired shore along a far, perilous
road.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: XXIX, stanza 5
quote_or_summary: Enemies persecute the speaker and Love has fled, but God counts
tears, knows misery, and has heard weeping; Hafiz is urged to take the Koran and
recite litanies.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: XXX, stanza 1
quote_or_summary: Shiraz is hailed; God is asked to guard its gate; Ruknabad’s limpid
stream is compared to the fount of Khizr and gives life forever.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized with brief phrase.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: XXX, stanza 2
quote_or_summary: The north wind blows between Jafrabad and Mosalla; Gabriel’s peace
abides in Shiraz, and the breath of its beauties surpasses the sugar of Egypt.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: XXX, stanza 3
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks the east wind for news of the maid with drunken
eyes and says that in dreams his head rests at her feet and her vision sweetens
solitude.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: quote
locator: XXX, stanza 4
quote_or_summary: If the Cup-bearer pours forth the speaker’s blood for wine, as
milk flows from a mother’s bosom, the speaker’s heart should yield its crimson
flood.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: XXXI, stanza 1
quote_or_summary: Dawn’s musk-strewing wind will blow; the ancient world will turn
to youth; Spring’s chalice pours other wines, and flowering plants lift cups or
chalices.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal extraction is strong for named figures and recurring images. Motif
assignments involving divine beloved, sacrifice, and mystical quest require review
because the passage is lyric and metaphorical.
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: |-
Used only the supplied passage and metadata. Taxonomy refs are limited to provided available refs; no external taxonomy IDs were added.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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