Punjab roars today as one mighty lion, "Alakh Niranjan!"
That momentous day is arrived
A million hearts bereft of anxiety
Freed from all bonds or indebtedness
Life and death--both serfs at their feet
Their minds burdened not with care.
Upon ten shorelines flanking the rivers five
A momentous day is arrived.
Within the palace walls in Delhi, meanwhile
Repeatedly the Badshah awakens from fretful trance
Whose voice is that which stirs the heavens
And breaks the quiet stillness of the night
Whose flaming torches--those, which touch
And light up the vast forehead of the sky?
By the shoreline of the five rivers
Did the swirling waves of martyrs' blood
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