Let My Country Awake


(page 35)
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 arm 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.