کرمک شبتاب
یا اخترکی ماہ مبینی بہ کمینینزدیک تر آمد بتماشای زمینیاز چرخ برینے
English translation
A moon-faced starlet, living in its isolated bower, came out of it in order to look closer at the lower planet than from its high tower.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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