گورستان شاہی
پتےاں پھولوں کی گرتی ہیں خزاں میں اس طرحدست طفل خفتہ سے رنگیں کھلونے جس طرح
English translation
The petals fall in autumn in the same way as toys fall from the sleeping infant’s hand.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 51 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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