ساقی نامہ
گل و نرگس و سوسن و نسترنشہید ازل لالہ خونیں کفن
English translation
With a riot of flowers – iris, rose, narcissus, lily, eglantine, and tulip in its martyr’s gory shroud.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Word meanings
سوسن: چنبیلی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 99 in “ساقی نامہ” (The Cupbearer's Epistle) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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