جوی آب
دریای پر خروش ز بند و شکن گذشتاز تنگنای وادی و کوہ و دمن گذشت
English translation
The surging river went over dam dyke, went over the narrow gorge of valley, hill and glen,
Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 of 16 in “جوی آب” (The Stream) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۱۳ / ۱۶