Liberty is Poetic

[Michael Fisher]

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 out 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--into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom my Father let my country awake.

-Rabindranath Tagore, India, 1861-1941