جگنو
نظارئہ شفق کی خوبی زوال میں تھیچمکا کے اس پری کو تھوڑی سی زندگی دی
English translation
The beauty of twilight's spectacle was decaying; brightening up this fairy, a short life it gave.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 18 in “جگنو” (The Fire-Fly) 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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