Poems of Conciousness (Reflections of Our Responsibilities for Our Country)

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 the words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward 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.

By Rabindranath Tagore,Bengali poet and political activist, Nobel Prize winner 1913