بچہ اور شمع
عظمت دیرینہ کے مٹتے ہوئے آثار میںطفلک ناآشنا کی کوشش گفتار میں
English translation
It is in the disappearing relics of the old magnificence; in the small child's effort to commence speaking.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 15 in “بچہ اور شمع” (The Child And The Candle) 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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