LET HONOUR come to me from Thee through a call to some desperate task, in the pride of poignant suffering. Lull me not into languid dreams; Shake me out of this cringing in the dust, Out of the fetters that shackle our mind, make futile our destiny; Out of the unreason that bends our dignity down under the indiscriminate feet of dictators; Shatter this age-long shame of ours, And raise our head into the boundless sky, into the generous light, into the air of freedom.