گورستان شاہی
زندگی سے تھا کبھی معمور، اب سنسان ہےیہ خموشی اس کے ہنگاموں کا گورستاں ہے
English translation
Was full of life at one time, now is desolate; this silence is the cemetery of its past elegance.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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