Ghazal · Love
Thou and I (opening couplet)
by Rumi (Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī) · translated by R. A. Nicholson
Happy the moment when we are seated in the Palace, thou and I,
With two forms and with two figures but with one soul, thou and I.
This poem is in the public domain. First published in Selected Poems from the Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz, 1898.
“Thou and I (opening couplet)” by Rumi (Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī) — quilloak.com/poems/rumi-thou-and-i
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