شمع اور شاعر
تھا جنھیں ذوق تماشا، وہ تو رخصت ہو گئےلے کے اب تو وعدہ دیدار عام آیا تو کیا
English translation
Those who were anxious for the Spectacle have departed; your coming now with general Sighting’s promise matters little.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 17 of 86 in “شمع اور شاعر” (The Candle And The Poet) 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 poem۱۷ / ۸۶