قطرۂ آب
ولیکن ز دریا برآمد خروشز شرم تنک مایگی رو مپوش
English translation
There came out of the sea a sound, loud and profound, as of a voice, and it declaimed: ‘You do not have to be ashamed of being small and feel so sad.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 11 in “قطرۂ آب” (The Raindrop And The Sea) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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