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A centuries-old Persian couplet often repeated in Indian-administered Kashmir translates to: "If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here."
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Austria has the best opening couplet of the year: "I'm an ocean of love / And you're scared of water."
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So fullness of that scene did have to be compressed down to that little couplet.
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There are, in fact, some rather disturbing rhymed couplets, if you will.
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“My heart stopped beating long ago / It pours out like a river,” one couplet goes.
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