Friday, June 5, 2009

Indian Prayer 1

From Rabindranth Tagore's Gitanjali
"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."
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The author, Rabindranath Tagore (Indian - (1861-1941) is a Nobel Laureate for Literature.
He received the Nobel Prize for his work, GITANJALI (Song Offerings)
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