بیا کہ خاوریان نقش تازہ یی بستند
بچشم مردہ دلان کائنات زندانی استدو جام بادہ کشیدند و از جہان رستند
English translation
Men whose hearts are dead and cold as a cell this world behold; with two cups to fill their head, from the whole of life they fled.
Translated by A.J. Arberry
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 7 in “بیا کہ خاوریان نقش تازہ یی بستند” (biya ke khawariyan naqsh-e taza-e bastand) in the section Part 2, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
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