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Last night my beloved looked kindly at me.

"How," she asked, "will you live without me?"

Me: "God knows, like a fish without water."

"It's your fault," she said, and she wept for me.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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