خضرراہ
ہمت عالی تو دریا بھی نہیں کرتی قبولغنچہ ساں غافل ترے دامن میں شبنم کب تلک
English translation
Those with elegant courage do not accept even the ocean O negligent one, how long would you hold dew in your skirt like the flower bud?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 57 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) 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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