GITANJALI  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 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.