Divan-I-Hafiz

" The present.edition enables the student of one of the most rmarkable of modern poems to compare the several versions given of it by the translator' in the successive editions during his life-time. [...] t The lays of #ifiz are suit.' on the banks of the Ganges as well as on the Danube ; in the plains of South. [...] IE po language Hebrew excepted are there more pious and sublime addresset to the Being of beings more splendid enumeration of His attributes or more beautiful descriptions of His visible works than in the 15.urän (Arabic) in the poems of Sa'di Nizami and Firdausi (Persian) and in the four Vedas and many.parts of the Purdnas (Sanskrit). [...] The forms of verse may now briefly be described (a) Jy (ghazal) This is a love poem consisting of from five to &tett verses ; any metre except the rubd'i metres may be used ; the same rhymegoes through the whoh poem ; the first hemistich of the first verse rhymes with the second hemistich of the Arne verse. [...] It should be the guide the friend the counsellor of students of oriental literature; should advise and assist in respect of native instructors of books and of modes of learning ; and should keep a list of native instructors of approved excellence fixing their fees and punishing them for indolence and negligence.