طفل شیر خوار
عارضی لذت کا شیدائی ہوں، چلاتا ہوں میںجلد آ جاتا ہے غصہ، جلد من جاتا ہوں میں
English translation
I am the lover of ephemeral pleasures, I cry. I soon become angry, I soon calm down.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 12 in “طفل شیر خوار” (The Suckling Baby) 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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