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Lover of truth, this morning bring pure wine

To break my fast, for life is death itself.

Keep watch over this burning heart, or else

Hear the moans of a song from which heart's gone.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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