batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2892-l2916
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2892-l2916
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
passage_locator:
label: XXXVII / XXXVIII / XXXIX / XLIII; lines 2892-2916
start: '2892'
end: '2916'
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: The speaker longs for union with the addressed beloved/Lord, imagines rising
from dust and grave, asks for merciful rain to quicken the grave, and envisions
the beloved visiting with wine and lute so that the speaker rises, dances, and
is renewed with youth at dawn.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker asks for tidings of union and says he will rise from the dust
to welcome the addressee.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker’s soul is compared to a homing bird yearning for Paradise and
soaring free from the snares of the world.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The voice of the addressee’s love calls the speaker to be a slave, and the
speaker says he will rise above life, the living, time, and mortal span.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker asks the Lord to pour guiding grace as rain of mercy that quickens
the speaker’s grave.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker imagines the addressee turning blessed feet toward the grave and
bringing wine and a lute.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The addressee’s voice rings through the speaker’s winding-sheet, after which
the speaker will arise and dance to the minstrelsy.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The speaker asks to be clasped to the addressee’s breast for one night and
says that dawn will awaken him with the flush of youth.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The addressee is named as the goal of all human endeavour and the idol of
Hafiz’s worship, whose face bids Hafiz come forth and arise from world and life.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: speaker / Hafiz
description: First-person speaker who longs for union, imagines his soul’s release,
prays over his grave, and is named as Hafiz at the end.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: addressed beloved / Lord
description: Second-person addressee whose love calls the speaker, who is addressed
as Lord in prayer, and whose feet, voice, breast, and face are invoked.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: speaker’s soul
description: The speaker’s soul is likened to a homing bird yearning for Paradise
and soaring free from worldly snares.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
roles:
- id: role:1
label: lover-supplicant seeking union
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker asks for tidings of union and prays to the Lord for grace and
mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: role:2
label: dead or buried figure who will arise
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker refers to dust, grave, winding-sheet, and repeated arising.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: beloved object of devotion
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The addressee is the one whose union is sought and is called the goal and
idol of Hafiz’s worship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- id: role:4
label: revivifying visitor and caller
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The addressee’s love calls the speaker, the addressee visits the grave, and
the voice causes the speaker to arise and dance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: liberated soul
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The soul is said to soar toward Paradise after being set free from the snares
of the world.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: dust and grave
literal_form: dust; grave; winding-sheet
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: sym:2
label: homing bird and Paradise flight
literal_form: speaker’s soul like a homing bird yearning for Paradise and soaring
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: rain of mercy
literal_form: clouds of guiding grace; rain of mercy quickening the grave
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: wine and lute at the grave
literal_form: wine and lute brought in the addressee’s hand
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: dawn renewal of youth
literal_form: dawn awakening the speaker with the flush of youth on the cheek
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: beloved face
literal_form: the addressee’s face bidding Hafiz come forth and arise
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Longing for union and ascent
summary: The speaker seeks tidings of union, rises from dust, and imagines the soul
soaring toward Paradise free from worldly snares.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Prayer for mercy on the grave
summary: The speaker asks the Lord to pour guiding grace as rain of mercy that quickens
the grave before the speaker is scattered like wind-blown dust and passes beyond
human knowledge.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Grave visitation with music
summary: The addressee comes to the speaker’s grave with wine and lute; the addressee’s
voice reaches through the winding-sheet, and the speaker rises and dances.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Embrace, dawn, and renewed arising
summary: The speaker asks for a night’s embrace; at dawn he expects to awaken with
youthful flush, and the addressee’s face calls Hafiz to arise from world and life.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Rising from grave or death into renewed life
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- death_rebirth
basis: The passage repeatedly presents the speaker as rising from dust, grave, and
winding-sheet, and as being renewed with youth at dawn.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The language is lyric and devotional, so the rising may be poetic or mystical
rather than a narrative resurrection event.
- id: motif:2
label: Soul’s ascent from worldly snares toward Paradise
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
- mystical_quest
basis: The speaker’s soul is compared to a homing bird yearning for Paradise and
soaring free from the world’s snares.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The ascent is expressed as a simile within lyric speech rather than as
a detailed journey map.
- id: motif:3
label: Divine beloved as goal of union and worship
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
- annihilation_union
basis: The speaker seeks union, addresses the Lord, responds to the call of love,
and calls the addressee the goal of all endeavour and idol of Hafiz’s worship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The addressee combines beloved and Lord language; the passage does not
explicitly define the figure’s theological status.
- id: motif:4
label: Revivifying water or mercy from above
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The speaker asks for rain of mercy from clouds of guiding grace to quicken
the grave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The water is metaphorically joined to grace and mercy; no separate mythic
water source is narrated.
- id: motif:5
label: Music and wine awakening the dead lover
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: The addressee brings wine and lute to the grave, and the voice through the
winding-sheet causes the speaker to arise and dance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a lyric image; the available taxonomy has no specific wine or
music motif family.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 2892-2894
quote_or_summary: "“Where are the tidings of union? ... Forth from the dust I will
rise up to welcome thee!”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 2895-2897
quote_or_summary: "“My soul, like a homing bird, yearning for Paradise, / Shall
arise and soar, from the snares of the world set free.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 2898-2900
quote_or_summary: The voice of the addressee’s love calls the speaker to be a slave;
the speaker says he will rise to something greater than mastery of life, the living,
time, and mortal span.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 2901-2905
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks the Lord for “rain of a mercy that quickeneth
on my grave” before being like dust carried by wind beyond human knowledge.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 2906-2907
quote_or_summary: When the addressee turns blessed feet to the speaker’s grave,
the addressee will bring wine and the lute in hand.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 2908-2909
quote_or_summary: "“Thy voice shall ring through the folds of my winding-sheet,
/ And I will arise and dance to thy minstrelsy.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 2910-2912
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks to be clasped for one night to the addressee’s
breast, and says dawn will awaken him with youth’s flush on his cheek.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: lines 2913-2916
quote_or_summary: The addressee is “the goal to which all men’s endeavour has pressed”
and “the idol of Hafiz’ worship”; the addressee’s face bids him “come forth and
arise.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; short excerpt used.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is direct from the supplied passage. Motif labels are
cautious because the passage is lyric and metaphorical rather than narrative myth.
No comparison claims are made because the passage itself does not compare traditions
or texts.
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 supplied passage text, metadata, and available taxonomy references.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg__l2892-l2916
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