Truly, this is perfect for this moment - Every line of this poem represents aspects of Barack Obama's message:
Gitanjali 35
by 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 perfection;
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 my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941) was an Indian philosopher and poet who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913; also known as Rabi Thakur.