বাংলার মাটি বাংলার জল, বাংলার বায়ু, বাংলার ফল, পুন্য হউক, পুন্য হউক, পুন্য হউক, হে ভগবান। বাংলার ঘর, বাংলার হাট, বাংলার বন, বাংলার মাঠ, পুর্ন হউক, পূর্ন হউক, পূর্ন হ্‌উক, হে ভগবান।রবীন্দ্রনাথ

বাড়ির কাছে আরশী নগর .... I have not seen her1 even once-- my neighbor who lives in the city of mirrors near my house. Her village is surrounded by deep boundless waters, and I have no boat to cross over. I long to see her, but how can I reach her village? What can I say about my neighbor? She has no hands, no feet, no shoulders, no head. Sometimes she floats high up in the sky, sometimes in the water. If my neighbor only touched me, she would send the pain of death away. She and Lalon are in the same place, yet five hundred thousand miles apart. অনুবাদ: ক্যারোল সালোমন। খাঁচার ভিতর অচিন পাখি কেমনে আসে যায় ... A Strange Bird Look, how a strange bird flits in and out of the cage! O brother, I wish I could bind it with my mindís fetters. Have you seen a house of eight rooms with nine doors Closed and open, with windows in between, mirrored? O mind, you are a bird encaged! And of green sticks Is your cage made, but it will be broken one day. Lalon says: Open the cage, look how the bird wings away! অনুবাদ: আজফার হোসেন। সব লোকে কয় লালন কি জাত সংসারে ... Casteism People ask, what is Lalon's caste? Lalon says, my eyes fail to detect The signs of caste. Don't you see that Some wear garlands, some rosaries Around the neck? But does it make any Difference brother? O, tell me, What mark does one carry when One is born, or when one dies? A muslim is marked by the sign Of circumcision; but how should You mark a woman? If a Brahmin male Is known by the thread he wears, How is a woman known? People of the world, O brother, talk of marks and signs, But Lalon says: I have only dissolved The raft of signs, the marks of caste In the deluge of the One! অনুবাদ: আজফার হোসেন। সব লোকে কয় লালন কি জাত সংসারে ...এই গানের অন্য একটি অনুবাদ করেছেন সুদীপ্ত চট্টোপাধ্যায়। Everyone wonders, "What's Lalon faith?" Lalon says, "I've never ' seen' the face of Faith with these eyes of mine!" Circumcision marks a Muslim man, what then marks a Muslim woman? A Brahmin I recognize by the Holy thread; how do I recognize a Brahmin-woman? Everyone wonders, "What's Lalon faith?" Some wear a garland and some the tasbi, that's what marks the Faiths apart. But what marks them apart when one is born or at the time of death? Everyone wonders, "What's Lalon faith?" The whole world talks about Faith, everyone displaying their pride! Lalon says, "My Faith has capsized in this Market of Desire...." Everyone wonders, "What's Lalon faith?"