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' The True Lover '...


Your earthly lover

can be very charming and coquettish

but never very faithful.

The true lover is the one who on your final day

opens a thousand doors.



- Rumi

Rumi: Hidden Music
Translated by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

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