صبح کا ستارہ
لاکھ وہ ضبط کرے پر میں ٹپک ہی جائوںساغر دیدئہ پرنم سے چھلک ہی جائوں
English translation
However hard she may control but still I may drip; I may spill over from the cup of the tearful eye.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 of 20 in “صبح کا ستارہ” (The Morning Star –Venus) 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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