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My mind on me bestowed a thinker’s gaze, From Love I learnt a toper’s wont and ways.

No wine, no flask, no goblet goes around, Sweet looks to banquet lend its hue and sound.

Take not my rhymes for poet’s art, I know the secrets of wine-seller’s mart.

Behold the bud athirst for breath of Morn, It tells the story of my heart forlorn.

Know not, absence or presence if it be, I am the alien here, all others free.

My stay in West I may prolong a bit, My frenzy if this desert will admit.

The stage of mind by Iqbal soon was crost, But in the Vale of Love this sage was lost.