گورستان شاہی

محو زینت ہے صنوبر، جوئبار آئینہ ہےغنچہ گل کے لیے باد بہار آئینہ ہے

English translation

Juniper is busy in beautifying; river is the mirror; for the flower bud spring breeze is the mirror.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 45 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.

Read it in the poem

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