[Holder Ost, beschwingter]1 Bote
   Den die Liebe wandeln heißt,
Grüße mit [dem schönsten Gruße]2
   Jene [Schöne]3, die du weißt.
 
Melde, daß mir in die Lüfte
   Schwinde der gequälte Geist,
Wenn sie nicht zu spenden eilet
   Jene Spende, die du weißt.
 
Ach! zu wissen und zu missen,
   Was mit [Edens Wonne]4 speis't,
Das gebiert die [tiefe]5 Trauer
   Die gefähre, die du weißt.
 
[Ja, was sind die Paradiese,
   Welche der Verzückte preis't,
Lacht sie, jene Flur der Liebe,
   Jene zarte, die du weißt.]6
 
Nicht der Aar zu sein verlangt mich,
   Der hinauf zur Sonne reis't;
Nachtigall Hafis vergöttert
   Jene Rose, die du weißt.

B. Arnim sets stanzas 1-4

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Confirmed with G.Fr. Daumer, Hafis. Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte. Nebst poetischen Zugaben aus verschiedenen Völkern und Ländern, Hamburg: Bei Hoffman und Campe, 1846, page 25

¹ Arnim: "Holder, leichtbeschwingter"; Marx: "Holder West, beschwingter"; further changes for Marx may exist not shown above.
² Arnim: "den schönen Grüßen"
³ Arnim: "Rose"
⁴ Arnim: "Himmelswonne"
⁵ Arnim: "bange"
⁶ Arnim:

Denn was sind die Paradiese,
   Welche der Entzückte preist,
Gegen jene Flur der Liebe,
   Die du weißt.

Text Authorship:

• by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Hafis - Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte, in Hafis [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

• a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hafis (c1327 - 1390) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Bettina von Arnim, née Brentano (1785 - 1859), "Hafis", stanzas 1-4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Louis Ehlert (1825 - 1884), "Persisch", op. 16 no. 4, published 1852 [ voice and piano ], from 5 Lieder aus dem Morgenland, no. 4, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Adolph Bernhard Marx (1795 - 1866), "Holder West, beschwingter Bote", op. 25 (Sechs Gesänge für vier Männerstimme) no. 4 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], Minden: Fissmer und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Frédéric Louis Ritter (1826 - 1891), "Holder Ost", op. 1, Heft 2 no. 7, published 1866 [ voice and piano ], from Hafis. Ein Liederkreis aus dessen Gedichten, no. 7, Leipzig, Schuberth und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jakob Rosenhain (1813 - 1894), "Holder Ost, beschwingter Bote", op. 76 (Sechs persische Lieder und Gesänge von Hafis und Mirza Schaffy, für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hans Michael Schletterer (1824 - 1893), "Liebesbote", op. 24 (Sieben Lieder für Mezzosopran mit Pianofortebegleitung ) no. 6, published 1869 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Stuttgart, Ebner [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892) , no title, first published 1859 ; composed by Dimitri Ignatevich Arakishvili.
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[Lovely eastwind, winged]1 messenger,
   Whom love commands to walk,
Remember me with [the most beautiful greeting]2
   To that [lovely one]3, whom you know.
 
Tell her that into the breezes
   My tortured spirit shall dissipate
If she does not hasten to bestow
   That gift, which you know.
 
Ah! to know and to do without
   That which sups with the rapture of [Eden]4,
That gives rise to the [deep]5 mourning
   That is perilous, which you know.
 
[Yes, of what import are the paradisiacal realms
   That the enraptured one praises
When that meadow of love smiles,
   That delicate one, which you know.]6
 
I do not desire to be an eagle,
   Who rises up to the sun;
Nightingale Hafez adores
   That rose, whom you know.

For what are the paradisiacal realms
   That the enraptured one praises,
Compared to that meadow of love,
   Which you know.