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Where the mine is without fear and the head is held high; where knowledge is free; where the world has not been frittered into fragmentspartitioned by the narrow domestic walls; where words come out from the depth of truth; Where sleepless striving stretches in strenuous arms(illegible text) towards perfection; where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit, and where the mind is led forward by thee into {{MD|(illegible text) everwidening thought and action — there waken up my country into that heaven of freedom, my father!

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