بشاخ زندگی ما نمی ز تشنہ لبی است
غزل بہ زمزمہ خوان پردہ پست تر گردانہنوز نالۂ مرغان نوای زیر لبی است
English translation
Chant your ghazals, but let the key be very low; for birdsong here is still in undertones.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 7 in “بشاخ زندگی ما نمی ز تشنہ لبی است” (Bishakh-e-zindagi ma nami ze tashn-e-labi ast) in the section The Wine Remaining, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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