A PRAYER
RABINDBANATH TAGORE
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 towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the
dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is lead forward
by thee in to ever-widening
thought and action–
Into that heaven of freedom
my Father,
let my country awake.
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s 125th birth anniversary fell on May 7, 1986.