گل نخستین
ز تیرہ خاک دمیدم قبای گل بستموگرنہ اختر واماندہ ئی ز پروینم
English translation
I sprang up out of dust and I assumed a rose’s robe;
But am, in fact, the Pleiad that was lost in the blue globe.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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.
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