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Why so happy to laugh with your mouth shut?

You should laugh like a flower, without a care.

Love that leaps from the soul is not the same thing

As love you hang round your neck by a string.

#1781: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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