Immortal couplet of Raj Ram Mauzoo.n

GhazaalaaN tum to waaqif ho, kaho majnoo.n ke marne ki
Diwaanaa to mar gaya aakhir ko viirane pe kyaa guzri

This is the immortal couplet of Urdu poet Raja Ram Mauzoo.n who
recited it extempore on hearing the news of Sirajuddaulah's defeat at
the hands of British in the battle of Plassey in 1757.

The couplet has survived almost 250 years and is still afresh and on the lips of innumerable
poetry aficionados who quote it. Not many other couplets of
Raja Ram Mauzoo.n, a poet from Bihar, are known. He was primarly a Persian poet and most of his kalaam was in Farsi though he did write in Urdu as well.