گورستان شاہی
رنگ و آب زندگی سے گل بدامن ہے زمیںسینکڑوں خوں گشتہ تہذیبوں کا مدفن ہے زمیں
English translation
This earth is full of flowers of life’s variegations. This earth is the cemetery of many destroyed civilizations.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 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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