ساقی نامہ
گل اس شاخ سے ٹوٹتے بھی رہےاسی شاخ سے پھوٹتے بھی رہے
English translation
It was a branch from which flowers kept shedding and bursting forth afresh.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 66 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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