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Слушать(AI)Late by Myself
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,no light and no land anywhere,cloudcover thick.
I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already under and living with the
Excerpt from the translation of Rumi by Coleman Barks
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi my
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