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All my heart speaks, openly or hidden,

Concerns her musky hair, that scent that strays"

My heart is flustered, knowing her wild ways,

And thus perturbed, flings words in disarray.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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