<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=372490" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tryst with Destiny (in poem form for India’s 64th Independence Day)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the clock struck twelve midnight, <br>Fourteenth, august, forty-seven, <br>An Asian nation turned awake, <br>While world slept on in slumber deep! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A hundred years of freedom fight<br>Came to a grinding halt that night, <br>As Pandit Nehru gave his speech, <br>‘Tryst with destiny’ with reach! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">India awoke to freedom life, <br>Despite a hundred years of strife, <br>And took a pledge anew to stay<br>A nation, free with peace each day! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That moment was so rare indeed; <br>A nation’s soul was stirred to lead, <br>And show the world its powerful seed, <br>As nations totally paid heed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">India’s history thus saw a dawn: <br>A struggle great ended that morn, <br>As success finally newborn, <br>Did Motherland with pride adorn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With freedom came newer duties; <br>The failures of the past did cease; <br>The country was given new lease –<br>A cure for this strange a disease! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nation was a sovereign state, <br>On that magical hour and date; <br>As leaders vowed to change the fate<br>Of Indian people’s long a wait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A star of freedom rose in east, <br>Heralding celebration, feast; <br>A hope anew was born that day, <br>To never cease, oh, come what may! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The star would never set at all –<br>The Nation’s Father’s clarion call, <br>The architect of freedom’s hall, <br>Was Gandhiji (Bapu) , man tall! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He held the torch of freedom high; <br>Many freedom fighters did die; <br>And many people heaved a sigh; <br>As democracy stood too nigh! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Jai Hind! Jai Bharat! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright by Dr John Celes 8-06-2010</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=372490" data-title="Tryst with Destiny (in poem form for India’s 64th Independence Day) de John Celes" data-description="And when the clock struck twelve midnight, Fourteenth, august, forty-seven, An Asian nation turned awake, While world slept on in slumber deep! A hundred years of freedom fight Came to a grinding halt that night, As Pandit Nehru gave his spe..."></div> </div> </div>

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