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Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - I stood on the edge of things
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001734
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Hafiz of Shiraz – Thirty Poems [translated by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs
I stood on the edge of things, as on a circle inscribed
But time’s revolutions have borne me into the still centre
My life’s harvest was burned when I fell in love with the wine bowl
Catching the fire that gleamed from the image of the cupbearer’s cheek