Sunday, July 8, 2007

Into that Heaven Of freedom

This one by Rabindranath Tagore. It is said this poem moved many Indian nationalists to tears during our freedom struggle.

Into that Heaven Of freedom

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 stretch its arm towards perfection,
Where the mind is led by thee into ever-widening,
Thought and action into that heaven of freedom,
My Father, Let my country awake.

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