XV-X
The days of
that Dervesh' O God keep gay,
Whose breath opes hearts like buds in-early-May.
To a Maktab's child he pray'd in this way,
For bread put him not in some body's pay.1
1.
In some body pay; employed by some body (with sense of dishonour) as in enemy's
pay.
That
Maktab's child could be Iqbal or his own son (preferably his son).