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


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.