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Will your pain submit to a cure? Never.

Or desire ever leave you? Never.

The seed of patience is sown in the heart,

You say. But will it ever sprout? Never.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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