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I told her, "Your love is driving me mad.

Will your chains ever hold me in my dreams?"

"Hush!" she said, "Enough of this fantasy.

How can a madman dream a wise man's dreams?"

#1639: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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