" Let My Country Awake"

" Where the mind is without fear and the head held high;
Where the 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 it's 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