where the fence skipped a beat

After selecting the quotation by Tagore, these words came to me:

 

when our steps are suddenly broken

and our climb is thus impaired

may we embrace this time

to travel within

to pause, reflect and begin

 

a g a i n . . .

 

 

“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

in 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.”

 

~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

Done