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\nSection Four<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nDisciples and Others<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nHymn to India<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nIndia, my India, where first human eyes awoke to heavenly
\nlight,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll Asia’s holy place of pilgrimage, great Motherland of
\nmight!<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWorld-mother, first giver to humankind of philosophy and
\nsacred lore,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nKnowledge thou gav’st to man, God-love, works, art,
\nreligion’s opened door.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nIndia, my India, who dare call thee a thing for pity’s grace
\ntoday?<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMother of wisdom, worship, works, nurse of the spirit’s
\ninward ray!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nTo thy race, O India, God himself once sang the Song of Songs
\ndivine,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nUpon thy dust Gouranga danced and drank God-love’s mysterious
\nwine,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHere the Sannyasin Son of Kings lit up compassion’s deathless
\nsun,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe youthful Yogin, Shankar, taught thy gospel: "I and He are
\none."<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nIndia, my India, who dare call thee a thing for pity’s grace
\ntoday?<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMother of wisdom, worship, works, nurse of the spirit’s
\ninward ray!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nArt thou not she, that India, where the Aryan Rishis chanted
\nhigh<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Veda’s deep and dateless hymns and are we not their
\nprogeny?<\/span><\/p>\n

\nArmed with that great tradition we shall walk the earth with
\nheads unbowed:<\/span><\/p>\n

\nO Mother, those who bear that glorious past may well be brave
\nand proud.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nIndia, my India, who dare call thee a thing for pity’s grace
\ntoday?<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMother of wisdom, worship, works, nurse of the spirit’s
\ninward ray!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nO even with all that grandeur dwarfed or turned to bitter
\nloss and maim,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHow shall we mourn who are thy children and can vaunt thy
\nmighty name?<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBefore us still there floats the ideal of those splendid days
\nof gold:<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA new world in our vision wakes, Love’s India we shall rise
\nto mould.<\/span><\/p>\n

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India, my India, who dare call thee a thing for pity’s grace
\ntoday?<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMother of wisdom, worship, works, nurse of the spirit’s
\ninward ray!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nDWIJENDRALAL<\/font> ROY<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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