Where The Mind is Without Fear

A good frind reminded me of this giant of poetry and Nobel Laureate. As a child in India I read his poems for school and am glad my friend Katie-Did reminded me of his genious...

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Where The Mind is Without Fear

Rabindranath 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 led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake

From Rabindranath Tagore's GeetanjaliMahfuj, Stockholm