THE TRESSES OF THE HAIR

Hafiz cried to his beloved, 'I made a bargain with that brown hair

before the beginning of time, and it shall not be broken through

unending time,' and it may be that Mistress Nature knows that we have

lived many times, and that whatsoever changes and winds into itself

belongs to us. She covers her eyes away from us, but she lets us play

with the tresses of her hair.

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