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 into fragments,
Into Narrow domestic Walls,
Where words come out from the depth of truth,
Where tireless striving stetches its arm 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 County Awake!

Rabindranath Tagore