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As long as I live, this is my work and my trade.

No hunter am I, but I live to stalk this prey.

This is what fills my life, this is what fills my day,

My calm rest, my relief, my companion in grief.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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