Here she comes with so thunderous a thrill

ওই আসে ওই অতি ভৈরব হরষে
Oi aashey oi oti bhoirawbo hawroshey

Here she comes with so thunderous a thrill
Sprinkling the earth with a few drops
Setting free a rush of fragrant fervour
Bedecked in a raiment of deep dense clouds
She comes with a youthful pride in her gait
Solemn darkness promising sweet relief
A quiver runs through verdure and azure
As the skies ring out in rumblings so deep
Frolics the peacock spreading it's plumage
The whole wide world thrills in eager delight
Clad in clouds she comes with wild abandon

Oh where are you wandering young damsels
Where are the women who seduce with a look
A startling flash of lightning in their eyes
Where are the maids who tend to jasmine blooms
Maidens who escort lovers to their trysts
Come, do come to the woods lovely dark and deep
Attired in colours of the deep azure
Play your Veena Oh enchanting angels
Let your gleaming girdles of gold jingle
To the rhythm of a dance so charming
Oh where are you lovesick lovelorn lasses
Maidens who escort lovers to their trysts

Bring on the music, drums, trumpets and flutes
Sound conch shells and cheer Oh country-maidens
Here come the rains with an amour anew
Our precious consort of comfort and joy
You who dwell in a cottage by the woods
Your eyes awash with eager emotion
Do compose a new ode to the monsoons
Inscribe the lyrics on bark of birch trees
And set them to the tune of Megh Malhar
Here come the rains with an amour anew

Scent your tresses with pollen from screwpines
Wreathe oleanders around your slim waist
Roll out a bed of Kadamba flowers
Beautify your eyes with collyrium
Tinkling your bangles to a rhythmic beat
Do urge your peacock to dance in cadence
With a sublime smile suffusing your face
Roll out a bed of Kadamba flowers

Here come the first showers of refreshing rain
Spanning the azure with their assurance
Rows of trees rustling in the maddened breeze
Melody spilling forth from vines and leaves
Poets of a thousand years congregate
To fill the firmament and the wild winds
With eternal songs of a thousand years
A thousand songs resounding in forests