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If you are loyal, keeper of secrets,

Don't give the game of those lost hearts away.

It's a game, but its fire is so very real

That it kills the lover at play.

#1913, from Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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