اب کہاں وہ بانکپن، وہ شوخی طرز بیاںآگ تھی کافور پیری میں جوانی کی نہاں

English translation

Gone is that smartness! Gone is that humor of style! The fire of youth was veiled in the old age's camphor.*
* Camphor is characterized with coolness. This verse is a very artistic expression of the fact that Dagh's thinking was a judicious mixture of the fervor of youth tempered with the coolness of mature age.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil