O Forest! O Forest! Dear Forest!

There is happiness in the forest,

There is rapture in the lonesome valley,

There is unity, which none interferes,

In the dead night, strange shrilling sounds roar;

I love not man the less, but

Nature the more.

O Forest! O Forest! Dear Forest!

These interviews from which

I build my permanent existence;

To mingle with the universe,

And feel

What I can ne'er expose,

Yet cannot all conceal.

O Forest! O Forest! Dear Forest!

There is yet a place of shelter,

Where the enemy cannot come,

Where the battle trumpet ne'er

Sounded or the drum.

Twenty thousand battalions

Sweep through in vain.

O Forest! O Forest! Dear Forest!

Man marks the earth with ruin,

His control stops at the outskirts;

There are gallant soldiers,

There are potential natural weapons

Of war,

There is tranquillity and felicity.

O Forest! O Forest! Dear Forest!

Hark, O Forest! I am the forest,

My realm is full of rich resources

Enemies ever try in vain to capture;

My defence forces are genuine.

The lofty trees point vertically

Towards the lovely blue sky.

O Forest! O Forest! Dear Forest!

My babies fall to the ground as they are old;

New babies take their places;

My babies are full of rapture.

In my lonesome world,

Hark! Sweet songs pierce the air,

Beasts and birds make my world lovely.

O Forest! O Forest! Dear Forest!

Hark! I am the forest;

There are wooden-built cities,

The seasons determine my existence's nature.

I am an isolated kingdom,

Man toils in my kingdom for wealth;

There is a rapture for man.

O Forest! O Forest! Dear Forest!

O Forest! I conceal my identity,

To mingle with the universe;

Man destroys me to build great cities,

My vast realm man cannot destroy.

The armaments which thunder-strike

My city walls, no effect have they on me.

O Forest! O Forest! Dear Forest!

Birds and beasts, merry in my realm,

My realm is always full of joy;

Dear Forest, the kingdom rare to find,

The storm cannot destroy my realm,

I have strong resistance against destruction,

O Forest! The realm rare to find.