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Quisqueyanos Valientes"Quisqueyanos valientes" ("Valiant Sons of Quisqueya") is the national anthem of the Dominican Republic. "Quisqueya" is the native word for the island of Hispaniola. Written in 1893 and adopted in 1897, the words were written by Emilio Prud'homme (1856-1932) and the music was composed by Jos Reys. First Sung as national anthem in 1900. Spanish lyrics I - Quisqueyanos valientes, alcemos
- Nuestro canto con viva emocin,
- Y del mundo a la faz ostentemos
- Nuestro invicto glorioso pendn.
- Salve el pueblo que intrpido y fuerte,
- A la guerra a morir se lanz
- Cuando en blico reto de muerte
- Sus cadenas de esclavo rompi.
- Ningun pueblo ser libre merece
- Si es esclavo indolente y servil;
- Si en su pecho la llama no crece
- Que templ el heroismo viril.
- Mas Quisqueya la indmita y brava
- Siempre altiva la frente alzar:
- Que si fuere mil veces esclava
- Otras tantas ser libre sabr.
II - Que si dolo y ardid la expusieron
- de un intruso seor al desdn,
- Las Carreras ! Beller!... campos fueron
- que cubiertos de gloria se ven.
- Que en la cima de heroco baluarte,
- de los libres el verbo encarn,
- donde el genio de Snchez y Duarte
- a ser libre o morir ense.
- Y si pudo inconsulto caudillo
- de esas glorias el brillo empaar,
- de la guerra se vi en Capotillo
- la bandera de fuego ondear.
- Y el incendio que atnito deja
- de Castilla al soberbio len,
- de las playas gloriosas le aleja
- donde flota el cruzado pendn.
III - Compatriotas, mostremos erguida
- nuestra frente, orgullosos de hoy ms;
- que Quisqueya ser destruida
- pero sierva de nuevo, jams.
- Que es santuario de amor cada pecho
- do la patria se siente vivir;
- Y es su escudo invencible, el derecho;
- Y es su lema: ser libre o morir.
- Libertad que an se yergue serena
- La victoria en su carro triunfal.
- Y el clarn de la guerra an resuena
- Pregonando su gloria inmortal.
- Libertad! Que los ecos se agiten
- Mientras llenos de noble ansiedad
- Nuestros campos de gloria repiten
- Libertad! Libertad! Libertad!
English translation I - Brave men of Quisqueya,
- Let us sing with strong feeling
- And let us show to the world
- Our invincible, glorious banner.
- Hail, O people who, strong and intrepid,
- Launched into war and went to death!
- Under a warlike menace of death,
- You broke your chains of slavery.
- No country deserves to be free
- If it is an indolent and servile slave,
- If the call does not grow loud within it,
- Tempered by a virile heroism.
- But the brave and indomitable Quisqueya
- Will always hold its head high,
- For if it were a thousand times enslaved,
- It would a thousand times regain freedom.
II - If it will be exposed to ruse and deceit
- Unto contempt of a real imposer,
- On to Las Carreras! Beler! ...it were places
- Where the traces of glory are found.
- Where on the top of the heroic bastion,
- The word of the libarated became flesh,
- Where the genius of Snchez and Duarte
- Taught to be free or to die.
- And if an unattended leader the splendor
- Of these glorious events could ignore,
- One has seen in Capotillo in the war
- The flag of fire wave.
- And the fire that lets the proud lion
- Of Castilla become stupefied,
- Removes him from the glorious beaches
- Where the crossed banner waves.
III - Compatriots, let us proudly
- Show our face, from today prouder than ever;
- Quisqueya may be destroyed
- But a slave again, never!
- It is a sanctuary of love that every character
- Of the fatherland feels alive!
- And it is his coat of arms, the right;
- And it is his device: be free or die.
- Freedom that still rises cool-bloodedly
- The victory in her triumphal car.
- And the clarion of war re-echoes
- Proclaiming his immortal glory.
- Freedom! That the echo's touch
- While they're full of noble tension
- Our fields of glory repeat
- Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!
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