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Your memory, sweet, is the source of my joy.

Your fire, oh moon, is a storehouse of warmth.

Whenever happiness bolts from my mind

You snare it back, tame, with your lovely wild hair.

# 1573, from Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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