گل نخستین
بہ آب جو نگرم خویش را نظارہ کنمبہ این بھانہ مگر روی دیگری بینم
English translation
I look at myself in the mirror of the rivulet,
Creating a companion through this self-deluding pose.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “گل نخستین” (The First Rose) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۲ / ۵