گورستان شاہی
خاک بازی وسعت دنیا کا ہے منظر اسےداستاں ناکامی انساں کی ہے ازبر اسے
English translation
The earth’s vast expanse is a mere child’s play to it. The story of Man’s failure is known to it by heart.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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