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;
by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into
the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening
thought and action—
thought and action—
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country
awake.
awake.
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian poet, playwright and essayist;
Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913
Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913
(I used this same Tinypic.com image of the American flag in a previous post but chose to repeat it here. It's my favorite photo of the flag ever.)
