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She clapped her hands when she saw my state:

"Drunk again, and all repentance broken!"

Repentance, like glass, is so hard to make

But once made, so easy to break.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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