کرمک شبتاب
یک ذرہ بی مایہ متاع نفس اندوختشوق این قدرش سوخت کہ پروانگی آموختپہنای شب افروخت
English translation
A tiny atom found itself a living thing by chance. Aquiver with life’s ardour it began a moth-like dance, and set aglow the night’s expanse.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 9 in “کرمک شبتاب” (The Glow-Worm) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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