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At first, with endless kindness, he carressed me,
Then roasted me in a fire of endless pain.
At the lash of his kindness, the spur of his love, I galloped.
When I became entirely him, he threw me down again.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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