Optimism
BY SATYENDRANATH DATTA
None need be afraid at the sight of lowering clouds,
For, sure, the Sun is smiling behind those vaporous veils.
The lost smile of the eclipsed Moon
Comes back, shattering the impenetrable darkness.
By the unfailing boon of vernal gales,
The naked branches are superbly clad in flowers.
The being that is drenched in tear-torrents
Finds its Life-Lord by its side.
Translated from BENGALI by B. G. REDDY.