محاصرہ ادرنہ
ہر شے ہوئی ذخیرہ لشکر میں منتقلشاہیں گدائے دانہء عصفور ہو گیا
English translation
Everything was transferred to the army camp’s store; the eagle became beggar for the grain of the sparrow.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 8 in “محاصرہ ادرنہ” (The Siege Of Adrianople) 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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