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Rubaiyat 27: Poem by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi

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The morning breeze tended to the rose,
A maid-in-waiting, as the flower grows.
If in the sun you have a shady refuge,
Seek the shade of a rose, and one who glows.

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