بیار بادہ کہ گردون بکام ما گردید
نوا ز حوصلۂ دوستان بلند تر استغزل سرا شدم آنجا کہ ہیچکس نشنید
English translation
What I sing is too high for my likely listeners. So I sing where no one listens to my singing.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “بیار بادہ کہ گردون بکام ما گردید” (Biayaar baadah ke gardoon be kaam ma gardid) in the section The Wine Remaining, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۶