batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2495-l2524
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2495-l2524
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
passage_locator:
label: XXIII / XXVII / XXVIII / XXXII; lines 2495-2524
start: '2495'
end: '2524'
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: Knowest thou not that parting goes before / All meeting, and from darkness
comes the light!
summary: A nightingale addresses a rose from a cypress branch. The speaker turns
from mourning banishment toward anticipated reunion with his lady, contrasts the
Zealot's Paradise with the tavern gate where his heaven lies, prefers wine to
tears, and concludes that absence and darkness precede meeting and light.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A patient nightingale rests upon a branch of a straight cypress-tree.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The nightingale addresses the Rose, asks that evil be turned away from her,
and says he sings thanks for her blossoming.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The Rose's blossoming is said to make hope spring up in joyless hearts.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: The nightingale asks not to lament apart and not to be wounded by the Rose's
proud thorns.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker says he will not mourn his banishment because one who has hungered
for his lady's face will know content when she comes.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:6
text: The Zealot seeks a heavenly dwelling-place and Huris to welcome him in Paradise.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:7
text: The speaker says his heaven lies at the tavern gate and that he needs no welcome
except his lady's grace.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:8
text: The speaker says it is better to drink red wine than tears while the lute
sings.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:9
text: The speaker says that if someone orders cessation, the reply should be that
God is merciful.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:10
text: The speaker says some people have joy and ease, while for him pleasure lay
in pain and he found peace by weeping for his lady.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:11
text: Hafiz is asked why he continually repeats the tale of absence and sorrow's
night.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:12
text: The passage states that parting goes before meeting and that light comes from
darkness.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: patient nightingale
description: A nightingale resting on a cypress branch and speaking to the Rose.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Rose
description: A blossoming Rose addressed by the nightingale and associated with
thorns.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: speaker / Hafiz
description: The first-person voice who speaks of banishment, the lady, tavern heaven,
wine, pain, peace, absence, and sorrow; directly named as Hafiz in the final stanza.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: lady
description: The speaker's lady, whose face is desired and whose grace is sufficient
welcome.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Zealot
description: A figure who seeks a heavenly dwelling-place and Paradise welcome.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Huris
description: Figures expected by the Zealot to welcome him in Paradise.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
roles:
- id: role:1
label: lamenting singer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The nightingale rests, cries to the Rose, sings thanks, and asks not to lament
apart.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: beloved figure
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:4
basis: The Rose is addressed by the nightingale with devotion, and the lady is desired
by the speaker and associated with grace.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: exiled or separated lover
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The speaker refers to banishment, hunger for the lady's face, absence, sorrow,
and weeping for the lady.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: tavern seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The speaker places his heaven at the tavern gate and prefers red wine while
the lute sings.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: paradise seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The Zealot seeks a heavenly dwelling-place and Huris in Paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: paradise welcomers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The Huris are named as those who welcome the Zealot in Paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: cypress-tree
literal_form: straight cypress-tree branch
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: nightingale
literal_form: patient nightingale
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: Rose
literal_form: blossoming Rose with thorns
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:4
label: tavern gate
literal_form: gate of the tavern identified by the speaker as where his heaven lies
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:5
label: Paradise
literal_form: heavenly dwelling-place with Huris
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:6
label: red wine
literal_form: red wine contrasted with tears
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:7
label: lute
literal_form: singing lute
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:8
label: darkness and light
literal_form: darkness from which light comes
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Nightingale addresses the Rose
summary: A nightingale rests on a cypress branch, praises the Rose's blossoming,
and asks not to be left lamenting or wounded by the Rose's thorns.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Banishment and alternative heaven
summary: The speaker refuses to mourn banishment, anticipates contentment when the
lady comes, contrasts the Zealot's Paradise with his own heaven at the tavern
gate, and seeks only the lady's grace.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Wine, music, pain, and peace
summary: The speaker prefers red wine to tears while the lute sings, invokes divine
mercy against prohibition, and says he found pleasure in pain and peace in weeping
for his lady.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Parting before meeting
summary: Hafiz is questioned for repeating absence and sorrow, and the passage closes
by stating that parting precedes meeting and light comes from darkness.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: beloved as source of grace and heaven
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The speaker says his heaven lies at the tavern gate and that he needs no
welcome except his lady's grace; the nightingale also addresses the Rose as a
beloved figure whose blossoming brings hope.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage does not explicitly identify the lady or Rose as divine; the
association is inferred from devotional and heavenly language in a Sufi lyric
context supplied by metadata.
- id: motif:2
label: separation before union
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The speaker discusses banishment, hunger for the lady's face, anticipated
content when she comes, and the closing statement that parting goes before meeting.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage frames this as love and poetic consolation; a mystical reading
remains interpretive.
- id: motif:3
label: pain transformed into peace
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: The speaker states that the source of pleasure lay in pain and that he found
peace by weeping for his lady.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: low
cautions: The taxonomy reference is tentative because the passage does not explicitly
describe annihilation or union.
- id: motif:4
label: darkness yielding light
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: The passage states that parting precedes meeting and that light comes from
darkness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: low
cautions: The lines use reversal and consolation imagery; they do not describe literal
death or rebirth.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: 2495-2502
quote_or_summary: Upon a straight cypress-tree branch the patient nightingale rests,
cries to the Rose, praises her blossoming, and asks not to lament apart or be
wounded by her thorns.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain; short summary from supplied passage.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: 2503-2510
quote_or_summary: The speaker will not mourn banishment; one hungry for his lady's
face will know content when she comes. The Zealot seeks Paradise and Huris, while
the speaker's heaven lies at the tavern gate with his lady's grace.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain; concise summary from supplied passage.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: 2511-2518
quote_or_summary: The speaker prefers red wine to tears while the lute sings, answers
prohibition with God's mercy, and says pleasure lay in pain and peace in weeping
for his lady.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain; concise summary from supplied passage.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: 2519-2524
quote_or_summary: Hafiz is asked why he keeps telling of absence and sorrow's night;
the passage says parting goes before meeting and light comes from darkness.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain; concise summary from supplied passage.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward. Motif assignments are cautious because
the passage is lyric and symbolic; divine-beloved and mystical readings depend
partly on Sufi context metadata.
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: |-
No external comparisons were added because the supplied passage does not itself support a specific cross-textual or historical comparison.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg__l2495-l2524
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