داغ
تھی حقیقت سے نہ غفلت فکر کی پرواز میںآنکھ طائر کی نشیمن پر رہی پرواز میں
English translation
In his elegant imagination he was not unaware of reality: The bird's eye remained focused on the nest even in flight.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 of 23 in “داغ” (Nawab Mirza Khan Dagh) 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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