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Each part of me displays my love for her;

Each scrap of me, a tongue that speaks her name.

I'm the lute in her arms, the flute at her lips,

And these my cries rise from her fingertips.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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