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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
Muhammad Iqbal
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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight. — Muhammad Iqbal

About Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal was a Poet (1877–1938).

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Muhammad Iqbal lived from 1877 – 1938.
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