خضرراہ
باغبان چارہ فرما سے یہ کہتی ہے بہارزخم گل کے واسطے تدبیر مرہم کب تلک
English translation
The spring says this to the helping gardener: You would apply ointment to the rose’ wounded heart how long?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 61 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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