Let my country awake!

"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 toward 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!"

by Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941) "Gitanjali"  (Song Offerings),  Nobel Prize in Literature 1913.