కపిల రాంకుమార్ ||Telugu original : Gurajada Venkata Appa Rao English translation : Ch J Satyananda Kumar || (1) Love the country brother Promote that is good hither Stop loose talk all together Think to do solid help brother (2) Where milk and crops run over In that way you toil for ever When food stuff is there, muscle too would be there One who has muscle is the real man beware! (3) If men are distressed and depressed How the country will be advanced Be in haste to learn all arts and skills And pile up country made goods (4) Spread to many a country the good made and sold by your gentry The men who can’t fetch riches Their name and fame shall be in ditches (5) What effect when you turn back and ponder Little good in the past, no wonder Don’t be dull, march and leap ahead If you get back, you shall backslide behind (6) Have rivalry in learning alone Competitions are in trade alone Don’t rake-up futile squabbles Set fire to the hostility of swords (7) Don’t claim patriotism as virtue of you alone Don’t boast of false claims in high tone With resolve do some good thing To show the people that fine thing (8) The demon of envy and jealousy Sucks and swindles the country Be elated to help the others and Learn the sense of unity (9) One who envies and weeps when others prosper Where is comfort to such a sinner One who deems others good as his good For such deft person blessings are many (10) Giving-up a bit of your profit Help the neighbour for his uplift Country means not mere mud But, country means, the men (11) Holding hand with other’s hand All the country men should walk in a band Like brothers and sisters All castes and creeds should stand in a strand (12) What if the faiths diverge Uniting hearts if men can merge The nation shall rise up And shall shine and stand out in the world (13) The great tree which is the country Should bloom the flowers of love Drenched in the perspiration of men The crops of wealth should yield (14) Sinking and slipping behind tree leaves The Cuckoo should sing sweet lyrics Listening to its poesy Fondness should sprout up in the country (15) Branding dirty bodied men as untouchables and Placing the real filthy hearted men in high castes, The moral code that made such unjust classification Is indeed an act of immorality without justification (16) When pondered in mankind Good and bad are the two castes found If good is viewed as untouchable I shall indeed become an untouchable (17) All religions shall fade away Wisdom alone shall stand and glow Then all the comforts of heaven Shall shine in the world (18) Hypocrisy, fraud, cruelty and blood-thirst Are the food for the tree of money And the base and support of power poetfreak/text/60214/love-the-country-gurajada-appa-rao-translated.html 21.9.2013 ఉదయం
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