Amar Shonar Bangla – My Golden Bengal

My Bengal of gold, I love you
Forever your skies, your air set my heart in tune as if it were a flute.
In spring, my mother mine the fragrance from your mango-groves makes me wild with joy –
Ah, what a thrill!
In Autumn, Oh mother mine,
In the full blossomed paddy fields,
I have seen spread all over – sweet smiles!
Ah, what a beauty, what shades, waht an affection
And what a tenderness!
What a quilt have you spread at the feet of banyan trees and long the bank of rivers!
Of mother mine, words from your lips are like Nectar to my ears!
Ah, what a thrill!
If sadness, Oh mother mine, casts a gloom on your face,
My eyes are filled with tears.

Written by Rabindranath Tagore. The Bangladesh national anthem was composed in Bangla by the great Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1913. Translated by Professor Syed Ali Ahsan.