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Luminous full moon, the bow of your brow

Shoots an arrow, and fills heart's cup with blood.

I ask, "This heart, this blood... what can compare?"

I take the cup of wine as she says, "There".

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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