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who are you?
and you?
I am Hasan, a student of calligraphy.
I've lost my master.
This burnt leaf
is the source of all my misfortune.
"Love - may God protect you -
the beginning is easy, the end is hard.
One night I had this dream:
In an empty basin
two old women
kept throwing water
as if to quench the basin's thirst.
Who are you?
Sitting on the rim of the basin,
The Princess of Samarkand
stared with her big eyes
at a red pomegranate.
Her desolate song
drew me out of my dream.
I woke up."
Who is singing?
The Princess of Samarkand sings her lament.
Why?
She is waiting for the one she loved
in her dream. Disguised as a horseman,
she searches for him.
Time passes and her lamentations make
my garden wither more and more.
One night, I had this dream:
In an empty basin
two old women
kept throwing water
as if to quench the basin's thirst.
Sitting on the rim of the basin,
The Princess of Samarkand stared
with her big eyes at a red pomegranate.
Her dismal song
drew me out of my dream.
Every dream has its response.