I Asked My Love

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Title:     I Asked My Love
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

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).

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Edward Powys Mathers's poem: I Asked My Love

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