کرمک شبتاب
گویم سخن پختہ و پروردہ و تہ داراز منزل گم گشتہ مگو پای برہ داراین جلوہ نگہ دار
English translation
I speak from ripe experience and true is what I say, don’t think of lost horizons and be steadfast on your way: Keep shining like this while you may.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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