تھا سراپا روح تو، بزم سخن پیکر ترازیب محفل بھی رہا محفل سے پنہاں بھی رہا

English translation

You were the complete soul; literary assembly was your body. You adorned as well as remained veiled from the assembly.
(This is an allusion to the lack of recognition of Ghalib's genius at the court of Bahadur Shah, the last Mughal Emperor of India. It also means that, though you adorned the literary assemblies and were bodily visible, your real self could not be seen except by those with insight.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil