گورستان شاہی
آ دبایا مہر ایراں کو اجل کی شام نےعظمت یونان و روما لوٹ لی ایام نے
English translation
The evening of death has overpowered the sun of Iran. Time has robbed the grandeur of Greece and Rome.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 41 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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