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the mystic dances...


The mystic dances in the sun,
hearing music others don't.

"Insanity," they say, those others.

If so, it's a very gentle,
nourishing sort.


- Rumi

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Version by Coleman Barks
"Birdsong"
Maypop, 1993

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