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Reciting you, friend, I lose sight of you.

Your dear face is veiled by the light of you.

I remember your lips, but the memory

The memory, my friend, veils your lips from me.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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