I asked my love: "Why do you make yourself so beautiful?"
"To please myself.
I am the eye, the mirror, and the loveliness;
The loved one and the lover and the love."
From the Persian of Abu-Said (978-1062).
I Asked My Love
Edward Powys Mathers
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