Does the nightingale give color to the river of sorrow and sighs? This trembling is merely the tangled heart of lovers.

This profound couplet contrasts the melodious lament of the cuckoo bird (bulbul) with the intense, internal agony of the lover. Mir Taqi Mir suggests that the sweet, sorrowful sounds the cuckoo makes are insignificant compared to the deep confusion and turmoil that resides within the heart of an admirer. The true pain, the real struggle, comes from the complexities of the heart itself.