Heaven of freedom
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 toward perfection.
Where clear stream of reason
Has not lost its way
Into the dreary 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
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