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Love Poem to a Boy
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One with the eyes of gazelles hunted
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the bird of my heart,
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Robbed me of my steadfastness, |
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robbed me, poor lover, of rest.
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Counsel and good advice are |
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no longer of use –
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There is no use any more, friends, |
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in counseling me!
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Both poem and calligraphy are by Mir ’Ali. |
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Illuminated manuscript, leaf from the Shah Jahan album, ca. 1640. |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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