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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Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941) was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. In 1913 Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature for a small body of his translated material focused on the 1912 Gitanjali: Song Offerings, he was the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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