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I wrote a poem that made my love angry

At me, or at the measure of my verse.

"Tell me then," I said, "What should I write?"

"Tell me", said she, "What poem could contain me?"

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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