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 led
forward by thee into ever-widening
thought and action -
Into that heaven of
freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore
(Picture: Ci meurent les cardinaux, Max Ernst)
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