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 the 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 led forward by thee into
everwidening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake
Rabindranath Tagore
