Mind Without Fear

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 from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection,
Into the heaven of freedom, my Father,
Let my country awake.

(Gitanjali 'Song Offerings' 1912, Nobel Prize winning collection of poems)
by Rabindranath Tagore 1861 - 1941