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Poem 35 from ‘Gitanjali’
Poem 35 from ‘Gitanjali’ - Rabindranath Tagore
Poem 35 from ‘Gitanjali’
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.
From 'Gitanjali' (Song Offerings) Formerly issued (1912) in a limited Edition by the India Society, Macmillan & Co.,1913. Recording used by kind permission of the British Library.