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 domestc 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 led forward by thee
into even-widening thought and action - into that heaven of
freedom,
My Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore