YOUTH POWER

Victory to Youth!
Nature's darling,
     of none is he afraid.
He only looks forward and ahead,
Calls for love, affection, hope and light,
     to give and to take, to break and to build,
           is he eager ever .

The strong urge that his heart harbours
     seeks for an outlet,
Invincible its mad flight,
     it rushes here and there.
And if resistance it finds,
     the heart hardens,
Taking that to be an injustice, it seeks
     for redress with all its might.

If in some activity is expressed
      that inmost urge
Then are sounded the drums of Victory
      of love and sacrifice.
Without understanding, you call him a rebel,
      a rebel he is not,
To help the world's march has he taken birth
      Victory to Youth !

(Translated by Dr. Sisir Kumar Ghosh )