THE SPLENDOUR OF THE EARTH

Green and all green and 'Sonfia'1
Oh Dear! are the boughs,
The laden boughs!

Rows after rows are rustling
Thousands, millions, rows innumerable!
The lavish caresses of the breeze,
Have filled the air with a joyous outcry.
Oh, on our earth descends
A green youthful fairy!
With blooms new on all her curves.
Green and all green and 'Sonfia'!
Oh Dear! are the boughs,
The laden boughs!

Suffused with dim red are the skies
Smeared as if with 'Gulal'2
Are the spacious cheeks of Heaven.
Bedecked with fineries,
A bewitching beauty every branch to-day,
Carefully adorned with foliage patterns.
Oh Dear! enveloped is every branch
In a captivating green 'Chunary3'!
Green and all green and 'Sonfia'
Oh Dear! are the boughs,
The laden boughs!