Round 2: Tossup 20

The realization “I need more grace / than I thought” closes a poem in this language that begs a “Dissolver of Sugar” to “dissolve me.” The title object of a poem in this language (-5[1])is said to be “fire, not wind” after making a “crying sound” upon being separated. An impatient person from an “Earthen Lot” asks “who is the (*) Potter?” in a poem in this language. Coleman Barks popularized a collection (10[1])of Spiritual Couplets originally in this language. A command to “Awake!” opens a collection in this language whose speaker asks for “A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread, (10[1])and Thou.” For 10 points, Rumi wrote in what language, (0[1])used by (-5[1])Omar Khayyam to write the Rubaiyat? ■END■ (10[1])

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