V-VI
You show us O
Poppy! thy self’s own trace,
And turned the hid mask of thy charming face.
I call you poppy when you show thy face,
In branch what you looked? Where was thy trace?1
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1. It is up to the readers to infer their own
conclusions of the philosophical points referred to here being not within the
field of the translator. Here Iqbal has left a feeler to the believers of
pantheism, theism and panentheism.