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I'm sad that as she binds me in this pain,

My love does not intend my heart to gain

Its happiness. When she sees my distress

She laughs in secret at this sweet, sweet jest.

 

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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