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Naked, that love gallops off to the plains;

I know him by his proud hand on the reins.

He tells himself, "Once free of form's embrace,

I will love, love in love with love's own face."

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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