شبنم اور ستارے
دل سوختہ گرمی فریاد ہے شمشادزندانی ہے اور نام کو آزاد ہے شمشاد
English translation
The elm tree is tormented with the heat of complaint; the elm tree is nominally free but is really a prisoner.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 14 in “شبنم اور ستارے” (The Dew And The Stars) 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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