Rumi's Poetry
In Our Time
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I'll Read It in Persia. I Like to Hear Persian.
Listen to this, read as it is grieving. It's telling of the tale of separations. Since i was severed from the bed of reeds, in my cry, men and women have lamented. Whoever finds himself left far from home looks forward to the day of his reunion. This goes on for some 35 lines. And that is the p sage that, it is said, began the masnvi when rumi took tooker a note out of his turban, asked by hosamedin to write masnevi,. he produced this nenome as it's called of 35 lines.
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