shud rawshan-am az shamʿ ki dar bazm-i ḥarīfān
khāmush shudan marg buwad ahl-i zabān rā

Upon seeing the candle
to me it became clear
that in the gathering
silence is the poets’ death.

Ghanī Kashmīrī (d. 1669)

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