زمستان را سرآمد روزگاران
چراغ لالہ اندر دشت و صحراشود روشن تر از باد بہاران
English translation
The tulip’s lantern in desert bare is fanned to brightness, by the spring air.
Translated by A.J. Arberry
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 6 in “زمستان را سرآمد روزگاران” (zamistan ra sar amad rozgaran) in the section Part 1, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۶