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Oh flowing tears, speak to my growing love:

Of that garden, that spring, and all that I've seen.

One night, when you remember those nights,

Please don't remember how rude I have been.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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