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Heart, if you sit amongst thorns and don't choose

To pick flowers all day from the garden,

What can I do? His face lights the whole world,

But if you can,t see it, what can I do?

# 1161, from Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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