Gitanjali

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 led forward by thee into ever – widening
Thought and action –
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
Let my country awake.

- Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore