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'Don't!' she tells me, when I moan like Jacob,
And when I'm patient, 'Don't be such a Job!'
If I grow too high she cuts me down,
Calls me 'Weed!' and then she tells me, 'Don't be!'

#1046: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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Translated by Zara Houshmand
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