#this is referring to the magical cup of Jamshid

[jardindefruits]

Tears, tears like pearls, must thread your eyelashes

Before you drink the wine from this jewelled cup.

— Hafiz translated by Peter Avery & John Heath-Stubbs, from ‘XLIII’, Thirty Poems of Hafiz of Shiraz

#hafiz #hafiz of shiraz #thirty poems of hafiz of shiraz #quotes #cries of birds on the air like jewels #this is referring to the magical cup of Jamshid #said to hold the elixir of immortality/all heavens of the universe could be observed by looking into it #*