The Evangelical Universalist Forum

Tagore's prayer for country

America needs this prayer also, in the form of a poem:

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 toward 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 every-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom, our Father, let our country awake

Amen, Dave.