“If what the eye sees does not rankle in the heart
Sweet is the flow of life in travel spent.”

— Ghalib

Ghalib (M. Mujeeb), p. 15
Poetry, Couplets

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Ghalib 9

Urdu-Persian poet 1797–1869

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