از چشم ساقی مست شرابم
چون رشتۂ شمع آتش بگیرداز زخمۂ من تار ربابم
English translation
See the rebec’s string at my fingering like a candle’s wick flameth bright and quick.
Translated by A.J. Arberry
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 5 in “از چشم ساقی مست شرابم” (az chashm-e saqi mast sharabam) in the section Part 1, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۵