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 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. EXPLANATION The poet in these lines shows his hearty desire to see his country in a place where there is no need to be worried about anything, the mind would be free of fears and everyone could live happily. Where there are no boundaries in the name of race, religion, rank, caste, creed, and culture. Where everyone strives to uplift the growth of whole society. In that ideal world, human reason would be free of worn-out traditions and customs...