صبح چمن
مانند سحر صحن گلستاں میں قدم رکھآئے تہ پا گوہر شبنم تو نہ ٹوٹےہو کوہ و بیاباں سے ہم آغوش، و لیکنہاتھوں سے ترے دامن افلاک نہ چھوٹے
English translation
Dawn: Step tip-toe in the lawn of park at morn, don't crush the shining gems that park adorn.
Embrace the mount and waste but caution take that links with whirling sky you do not break.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “صبح چمن” (Dawn Of The Park) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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