LET MY COUNTRY WAKE

Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world is not broken into fragments
by narrow domestic walls

Where words emanate from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stetches its arms
towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason hasn’t lost its
way into the dreary sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee into
ever widening thought and action-

Into that haven of freedom, o sire, let my
Country wake ---Tagore