TAGORE IN TRANSLATION: Verse 35, Gitanjali

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Verse 35, Gitanjali (1912)

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 everwidening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
Let my country awake.

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

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