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.
在那里,心是无畏的,头也抬得高昂;
在那里,知识是自由的;
在那里,世界还没有被狭小的家国的墙隔成片段;
在那里,话是从真理的深处说出;
在那里,不懈的努力向着"完美"伸臂;
在那里,理智的清泉没有沉没在积习的荒漠之中;
在那里,心灵是受你的指引,走向那不断放宽的思想与行为――
进入那自由的天国,我的父呵,让我的国家觉醒起来罢.
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