OUR REPUBLIC DAY

By P.N.BINDU

Down the nights-down the days

Adorned by Freedom’s ways

What soulful homage we pay

To our Republic Day?–

Oh, world is full of fire,

Life is full o’ desire;

But, none knew the secret yet

Where fire and desire met:

So, howe’er man had fared,

As by our Fathers declared

Strange gods still we worship

For human-fellowship;

And tread the paths once trod

To take man nearer God:

And, life to breathe martyrdom

For peace, progress and freedom

That ended the King and Kingdom

In the wake of man’s wisdom.

Today we have unfurled

The highest Flag of the World

To seek life’s sanctity

In its colourful Trinity,

To know the worth of the Clay

And of the Eternal Day!–

To rouse the awakened heart

To play its blissful part–

To end the growing terror

And the enveloping error:

For we see as in a dream

World’s last funeral gleam

Glowing bright–growing dim

Fed by the red-flames grim

Searching for a newer way

To run the race of a Day–

Down the nights–down the days

In Life’s melancholy ways.

With greetings of the year

New–we wipe out a tear

And greet the rich red-rose

That hails for healing the woes

And open the heart’s gateways

Meaning no mystic craze

In the truth of the Infinite

To be doubtless and definite!

Down the days–down the nights

We fight for human rights.

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