Where The Mind is Without fear

 

                                              

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

 depths 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