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The jealous birds complained to Solomon,

Demanding he punish the nightingale.

Said she: "I only sing in spring -- calm down.

Nine months of the year I make no sound."

#1006, from Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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