Chapter 35

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 dreary¹ 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．

1 dreary   

adj.令人沮丧的，沉闷的，单调乏味的

参考例句：

• They live such dreary lives.他们的生活如此乏味。
• She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.她听够了那些关于酗酒和暴力的乏味故事。