شبنم اور ستارے
آتی ہے صبا واں سے پلٹ جانے کی خاطربے چاری کلی کھلتی ہے مرجھانے کی خاطر
English translation
The zephyr comes from there only to return; the poor flower-bud opens only to wither.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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