Gitanjali 35 Poem by Rabindranath Tagore

**Gitanjali 35** BY [[RABINDRANATH TAGORE]](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/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 ou...

**Gitanjali 35** BY [[RABINDRANATH TAGORE]](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/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. Rabindranath Tagore, \"Gitanjali 35\" from *Gitanjali (Song Offerings): A Collection of Prose Translations Made by the Author from the Original Bengali*, intro. by W. B. Yeats (London: MacMillan, 1913). Public domain.