عہد طفلی
تھی ہر اک جنبش نشان لطف جاں میرے لیےحرف بے مطلب تھی خود میری زباں میرے لیے
English translation
Every movement was a symbol of life's pleasure to me; my own speech was like a meaningless word to me.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 6 in “عہد طفلی” (The Age Of Infancy) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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