Rabindinath Tagore (1861-1941) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. One of India's most distinguished poets, he was also a distinguished educator, social reformer, philosopher, and advocate for India's liberation from imperial rule. The following poem was published in a book of prayers entitled The Heart of God.
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 You into ever widening thought and action—
Into that haven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
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