جز قیس اور کوئی نہ آیا بروئے کارصحرا، مگر، بہ تنگیٔ چشمِ حُسود تھا
No one but Qais (Majnun, the lover of Laila who fled to the desert) ever came forward to act;yet the desert itself was as narrow as the envious eye.
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalibمرزا اسد اللہ خاں غالبؔ
اللوحة: Bhairava Raga, early 1800s. Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0.