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Rabindranath Tagore

My Country Awake

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where the 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 the truth;
Where timeless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clean stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by these into ever widening thoughts and action;
Into that heaven of Freedom;
My father let my country awake.