The most beautiful flower

The most beautiful flower
(ah hla sone pan)

Fragnant jasmine
White and clean
Sweet and gleam
Simple men dream about you.

Red roses
No less pleasant
More fragnant and famous
Many men's love.

Lily in the pond
Dainty and dancing in the morn
Travelling common men
Found beholden.

But, my dear
You are the prettiest flower
With more colour and vigour
Move with grace and grandeur
You captivate me splendour.

Maung Maung Nyo (1958)