پیوستہ رہ شجر سے، امید بہار رکھ
جو نغمہ زن تھے خلوت اوراق میں طیوررخصت ہوئے ترے شجر سایہ دار سے
English translation
The birds which were singing in the seclusion of leaves have departed from your shady tree’s leaves.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “پیوستہ رہ شجر سے، امید بہار رکھ” (Remain Attached To The Tree Keep Pring’s Expectation) 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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