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Persian miniaturist-style fresco, late-16th/early-17th century
Chehel Sotun Palace, Isfahan, Iran
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"Who led you to us this night, taken thus with wine?
Who, lifting the veil that covered you, led you here?
Who brings you, swift as the wind,
To rekindle the flame of one who was already burning in your absence?"
Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat (quatrain 3)
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