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VIII. (‘We have tried our lot in this city of our fortune’)

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VIII. (‘We have tried our lot in this city of our fortune’)

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VIII. (‘We have tried our lot in this city of our fortune’)

Poet(s)

Hafez

Credits

Translator

Cowell, Edward Byles

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Macmillan’s Magazine 30:177, 257, July 1874.

First line

We have tried our lot in this city of our fortune

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Persian

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III. (“Oh may none like me the wounded be distracted by Absence”)
IV. (“Lured by the rose’s scent at dawn I walked for a whole in the garden”)
V. (“Oh friends of my bosom, remember last night’s wine”)
VI. (“I long for the strong wine and its man-o’ermastering strength”)
VII. (“I have the edict of the old man of the tavern, and ‘tis an ancient saying”)
IX. (“Oh remember that my home was once the top of thy street”)
X. (“In the morning, when heavy with last night’s revel”)
XI. (“Offtimes have I said it, and again I say it”)
XII. (“The dust of this body of mine is the veil of the face of the soul”)

Notes and attribution research

One of twelve poems included in the unsigned The Persian Poet Háfiz (251-58), by Edward Byles Cowell (Wellesley Index). (JS, AC

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 16071

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “VIII. (‘We have tried our lot in this city of our fortune’),” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/macmillan/1874/pom_16071_viii_we_have_tried_our_lot_in.html.

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