Friday, October 02, 2015

Hamza baba ghazal in English taken from the book " the modern poetry of Pakistan ".

Hamza Baba Ghazal.
 I shall always go with the brave pakttoon-
 A pakhtoon, i with paktoo will go.
 O nation’s sun! Like morning dew,
 I with your scorching rays would go.
 They who threw caution to the wind for their nation,
 I too with the delirious like these would go
. Beware! I am not the evil eye that,
 With the smoke of wild rue i would go
 Stranger call it the language of hell-
 But to paradise i with paktoo would go.
I am not the sun that can’t return,
But with the inclination of the day i go.
 The heritage of my past lies still in the east:
 I am not the sun that to the west would go.
 If the youth bloom into the world of paktoon,
 Then i with these brave young spirits would go.
 To the future i bring the tradition of the past,
 To both with the pomp of the present i go.
 Unless i bring the pakhtoon together,
 With Jirga’s i to every tapa would go.
 O Hamza! The journey may be to the Hijaz,
But i with the caravan of pashtoon will go.

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