Allama Iqbal - I am but as the spark that gleams for a...

I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment, His burning candle consumed me - the moth; His wine overwhelmed my goblet, The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold And set my ashes aflame

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I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,<br/>His burning candle consumed me - the moth; <br/>His wine overwhelmed my goblet,<br/>The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold<br/>And set my ashes aflame

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