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 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 ever-widening thought and action --

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

Rabindranath Tagore