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You trap me in a hundred snares, bound tight.

Night comes and you say, "Go, I,ll send for you."

And if I go, who will you lie with then?

Tonight who will you call by my name, friend?

#1702, from Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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