کرمک شبتاب
مائیم کہ مانند تو از خاک دمیدیمدیدیم تپیدیم، ندیدیم تپیدیمجائی نرسیدیم
English translation
Like you we entered into this world by earth’s dusty door. We saw and tossed about; we did not see, and tossed about the more. O never did we reach the shore.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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