For sake of these two splendours do the wise

Read 'For sake of these two splendours do the wise' by ' Hafez' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

For sake of these two splendours do the wise by Hafez

For sake of these two splendours do the wise
Set store on riches, & for these alone:
For these two glories only do they prize
Power & majesty of kingly throne:

Or this: to succour friendship in distress,
To comfort humble sorrow, nor despise
To cheer the joyless heart of weariness,
To guard & aid whom fortune doth oppress
That he to life’s glad kingdom be restor’d
(& thus their monument of thanks they raise
More high than pomp’s vain pinnacle of praise),

Or this: to forge therefrom a trenchant sword
Whereat shall poltroon evil cower & fly,
& smite Hell’s fiends of foulness that they die.

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