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 toward 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 ever-widening thought and action —

Into that heaven of freedom,
my Father, let my country awake.

From Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore.
Translated from Bengali to English by the author circa 1911.
Original poem titled, "Indian Prayer."

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