شمع اور شاعر
خیر، تو ساقی سہی لیکن پلائے گا کسےاب نہ وہ مے کش رہے باقی نہ مے خانے رہے
English translation
Very well, the cup-bearer you may be, whom will you serve wine: now neither those wine-drinkers nor those taverns did remain.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 27 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 poem۲۷ / ۸۶