لالہ صحرا
اس موج کے ماتم میں روتی ہے بھنور کی آنکھدریا سے اٹھی لیکن ساحل سے نہ ٹکرائی
English translation
The whirlpool mourning for its lost wave weeps, born of the sea and never to reach the land.
Translated by V.G. Kiernan
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 8 in “لالہ صحرا” (Poppy Of The Wilderness) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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