فنون لطیفہ
شاعر کی نوا ہو کہ مغنی کا نفس ہوجس سے چمن افسردہ ہو وہ باد سحر کیا
English translation
It may be poet's verse or song, or breath of one who plays on reed what does that morning breeze avail if stead of freshness sear it breed?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “فنون لطیفہ” (Fine Arts) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۵