ساقی نامہ
وہ جوئے کہستاں اچکتی ہوئیاٹکتی، لچکتی، سرکتی ہوئی
English translation
Look at that hill-stream. How it halts and bends and glides and swings around.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Word meanings
جوئے کہستاں: پہاڑی ندی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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.
Read it in the poem۵ / ۹۹