سحر میگفت بلبل
Sahar Meguft Bulbul
“At Dawn the Nightingale Said”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026Transliteration
Sahar megoft o bulbul baghban raa Dar ein bagh joz nehal gham naroyad
Ba piri merasad khar beyaban Wali gul chon jawan gardad bemirad
Shanidam dar aadam parwana megoft Dame az zendagi taab o tabam bar
Perayshan kon sahar khakestaram raa Wale soz o saaz yak shabam deh
متن اصلی
سحر میگفت بلبل باغبان را در این باغ جز نهال غم نروید
به پیری می رسد خار بیابان ولی گل چون جوان گردد بمیرد
شنیدم در عدم پروانه میگفت دم از زندگی تاب و تبم بر
پریشان کن سحر خاکسترم را ولی سوز و ساز یک شب ام ده
At Dawn the Nightingale Said — the nightingale (bulbul) as the poet's alter ego, the bird that sings of roses and grief. Dawn as the liminal hour when the nightingale's message can be heard.
About This Recording
At dawn the nightingale said — and the nightingale, the bulbul, is the poet himself. Persian poetry runs on the bird's hopeless love for the rose: it sings for something beautiful and fragrant that will be gone by morning and can never be possessed. To sing as the bulbul is to cast yourself as perpetual, unrewarded devotion.
Zahir catches the hour, too. The song feels like it lives in the thin light before the world wakes, when the bird's voice is clearest and the day has not yet started asking anything of anyone.
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