Literature/Rabindranath Tagore
Where the Mind Is Without Fear
Rabindranath Tagore, 1912Translated by the author (1912)
Rabindranath Tagore's prayer for his country to awake into a heaven of freedom, from his own English prose versions in Gitanjali.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
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.