عہد طفلی
آنکھ وقف دید تھی، لب مائل گفتار تھادل نہ تھا میرا، سراپا ذوق استفسار تھا
English translation
My eye was devoted to seeing, my lip was prone to speak; my heart was no less than inquisitiveness personified.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
وقف دید: دیکھنے میں مصروف۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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