گورستان شاہی
زندگی انساں کی ہے مانند مرغ خوش نواشاخ پر بیٹھا، کوئی دم چہچایا، اڑ گیا
English translation
Human life resembles the sweet singing bird, which sat on the branch a while, chirped, flew away.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 26 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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