جوی آب
گل عشوہ داد و گفت یکی پیش ما بایستخندید غنچہ و سر دامان او کشید
English translation
The rose said temptingly: Stay with us here awhile; the rose-bud laughed and pulled the helm of its skirt.
Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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