گورستان شاہی
آسماں، بادل کا پہنے خرقہء دیرینہ ہےکچھ مکدر سا جبین ماہ کا آئینہ ہے
English translation
The sky is clothed in the cloud’s old tattered robe. The mirror of moon’s forehead is somewhat gloomy.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 58 in “گورستان شاہی” (The Royal Cemetery) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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