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The scent of you will never leave my nose.

The vision of your face won,t leave my eyes.

A lifetime long I've dreamt you, night and day.

That life has passed, the dream won't go away.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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