(A poem by Rabindranath Tagore)
“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 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.
In to that heaven of freedom, my father,
Let my country awake!”
Rabindranath Tagore is an Indian Bengali poet, short-story writer, essayist, playwright painter, and song composer. In 1913, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, thus becoming the first non-European person to do so.