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Instead of blood, the pain of love is circulating in my arteries.

— Masaud Akhtar Zaigham, The Jewels of Urdu Poetry
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The Jewels of Urdu Poetry

by Masaud Akhtar Zaigham

Poetry · 700 pages

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