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My face was pale, my heart was overflowing

And travelled the same path that Majnoon trod.

That was how things stood until this moment --

What's happened now makes all that seem like nothing.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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