Listen to this nay

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Listen to this Ney (the reed-flute) that is complaining and narrating the story of separation.

Ever since they (the people) have plucked me from the reedland, my laments have driven men and women to deep sorrow.

from the opening of Rumi's Mathnawi Ma`nawi

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