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Each day my heart drinks yet a new sweet draught

Whose pleasure makes it quite forget what,s gone.

My heart is first to sip love,s wine, then gives

A taste to me: I faint, all sense withdrawn.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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