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O wine, you are king, just and good to all.

One cup of you will free a hundred slaves.

My eyes are bright when your sun shines in me.

I escape in you who make me happy.

#1709: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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