Thursday, February 28, 2008

More Tagore






















Gitanjali 35
by 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.


Text from Poetry Foundation

Nude Girl Seated in Profile, Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919). Image from BYU Museum of Art Collection.

1 comment:

chayaruchama said...

I'm late in commenting- out of town-
Thank you for the Tagore.
You know I love it...