جوی آب
در خواب ناز بود بہ گہوارۂ سحابوا کرد چشم شوق بہ آغوش کوہسار
English translation
’Twas sound asleep in the cradle of the clouds; opened its wondering eye in the lap of the mountains.
Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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.
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