One of my Best Poems

I have read many poems, but some of are very close to my heart. This poem is one of them....

Sonnet to the pupils of Hindu College 

Expanding like the petals of young flowers 

I watch the gentle opening of your minds. 

And the sweet loosening of the spell the binds, 

Your intellectual energies and powers, 

That stretch (Like young birds in soft summer hours) 

Their wings, to try their strength, O, how the winds 

Of circumstances and freshening April showers 

Of early knowledge and unnumbered kinds 

Of new perceptions shed their influence; 

And how you worship truth’s omnipotence. 

What joyance rains upon me, when I see 

Fame in the mirror of futurity, 

Weaving the chaplets you have yet to gain 

Ah then, I feel I have not lived in vain. 

 ***by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio