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" I will pursue without faltering the same policy 

 in the future as during the past two years, and I 

 will not waver a hair's-breadth from that course. 



" My faith in India, its future, and its people 

 remains unshaken." 



Answer him: " We abide in your faith; we know 

 you will not fail us." 



Let both races repeat in unison the prayer of 

 our late King-Emperor: 



" May Divine protection and favour strengthen 

 the wisdom and mutual good-will that are needed 

 for the achievement of a task as glorious as was 

 ever committed to rulers and subjects in any State 

 or Empire of recorded time." 



As for myself; it but remains for me to give 

 expression to one all-inspiring aspiration: May 

 India, the India that I love, become a land, in the 

 words of Rabindranath Tagore: 



" 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 perfec- 

 tion ; 



Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into 

 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 this country 

 awake." 



