Let My Country Awake

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; 
Where knowledge is free; 
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments 

by narrow domestic walls; 
Where words come out from the depth of truth; 
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection: 
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the 

dreary desert sand of dead habit; 
Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action — 
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

 

~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

 

(Gitanjali)

 

 

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