Martin Sheen Reads "My Country Awake" by Rabindranath Tagore: "My Country Awake

Where the mind is without fear and the head 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.

by Rabindranath Tagore"

Saw Martin Sheen on Inside the actor's studio today. We found this poem very striking and worth posting.

I still wish he were President. Would certainly be better than ......