قطرۂ آب
گہی ھمدم تشنہ کامان راغگہی محرم سینہ چاکان باغ
English translation
There have been days on which it fell to you to slake the thirst of desert shrubs. Again, there were days when you soothed the pain in the rent bosom of a rose.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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