کرمک شبتاب
یا ماہ تنک ضو کہ بیک جلوہ تمام استماہی کہ برو منت خورشید حرام استآزاد مقام است
English translation
A gently beaming moonlet told itself that it would owe its light no longer to the bounty of the sun, and so wherever it likes it can go.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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