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Thursday, 19 September 2013

The tulip




















Perhaps the tulip know the fickleness
Of Fortune’s smile, for on  her stalk’s green shaft
She bears a wine cup through the wilderness

Hāfez

translated by Gertrude Bell

(Picture: Flower, Abidin Dino)