Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free(and wisdom abounds);
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
by narrow domestic (communal and caste) walls;
Where words come out from the depths of truth;
(not perfect but 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
(with reverence and due respect to the Master Poet, a few minor additions by me)
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