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 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