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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]1; 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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View text without footnotes1 Bachlund: "wars"
Text Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Gitanjali, no. 35, first published 1910 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in গীতাঞ্জলি (Gitanjali), no. 35 [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Where the mind is without fear", 2008 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Creston, born Giuseppe Guttoveggio (1906 - 1985), "Where the mind is without fear", op. 11 no. 3 (1945) [ mixed chorus a cappella ], from Three Chorales from Tagore, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wally Kleucker , "Let my world awake", 1989/2005 [ SAB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-03-07
Line count: 14
Word count: 91
Wo furchtlos ist der Geist und hoch das Haupt erhoben, wo die Erkenntnis frei, und nicht zerteilt die Welt von eng gezognen Mauern; wo tiefer Wahrheit alles Wort entspringt, wo jeder unermüdlich trachtet nach Vollkommenheit, wo des Verstandes klarer Strom sich nicht verliert im öden Sande abgestorbener Gewohnheit, wo Dein Geist uns leitet, Herr, zu stetig wachsender Erkenntnis und zur Tat - in diesem Freiheitshimmel, Vater, lass mein Land erwachen.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Gitanjali, no. 35, first published 1910
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in গীতাঞ্জলি (Gitanjali), no. 35 [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2014-03-31
Line count: 14
Word count: 69