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'You are mad,' you said, 'a wandering fool.'

But you're mad to look for sanity from me.

'You are shameless,' you said, 'and cold as steel.'

But polished steel reflects just what is real.

#1942: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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