1. Your day, O Marne river, is an immortal memory
That remains across the ages, renewing itself

2. Nights and events pass
And every day, the memory of your day is reborn

3. And every tongue in the wilderness speaks of it
Echoing it, every valley repeats it

4. And the repentant sing of their comfort
Whenever they wanted consolation, they repeated it and were eloquent

5. And those who anticipate feasts sing of them
Whenever they mentioned your day, they celebrated

6. And its fame to us, so soon after,
We see it more far-reaching than the sun's fame

7. Its full moon in every atmosphere is brilliant
And its moonlight in every branch warbles

8. Its subject carried by the banners of majesty and
Beauty and the highest intended and purpose

9. And the greatest that the youth's soul takes pride in
Is precious, and if it loses it, for it the soul yearns

10. I meant by it the freedom of nations which
For them the free, after God, kneel and prostrate

11. And its free supporters are masters of the world
And whoever it takes as its slave, he is master

12. They raised its beacon between the two horizons
They are its throne above the sky which they erected

13. But alas its enemies, they
Ravaged and corrupted the earth against it

14. They confronted the regimes they knew of it
And the exhaustion of those who leaned towards it, they deliberately sought

15. They tyrannized, transgressed, and did not fear God
But disobeyed Him, were arrogant, and rebelled

16. And adorned absolute rule over all the people
For them a kingdom, its followers enslaved

17. Since his ascension to the throne, he did not cease
Aspiring to the conquest, and threatening peace with it

18. With it, he tempted his people and urged them
To it, and strengthened their resolve and determination

19. They obeyed his war order at once and when he called
They immediately responded and did not hesitate

20. They spent half a century preparing for it
They were diligent, firm, sought help, and equipped themselves

21. And prepared whatever weapons, provisions
and money required and mobilized millions

22. And threw all the people of the world into its fire
So the world became a blazing hell

23. And they crossed the banks of the Marne in their raids
And threatened Paris with imminent conquest

24. But Joffre faced them like rumbling thunder
So they fled, and from Paris they were blocked and dismissed

25. And on the Marne, gallantry wrote a verse
Telling its invaders, “Here Joffre lies in wait”

26. And when the Russians abandoned their allies
And the bed of humiliation was comfortable for them

27. The atmosphere was vacant for the Germans so they attacked
France and were diligent in their assault and intensified it

28. And they repeatedly attacked the defending army
Causing worldwide turmoil and unseating it

29. And they again reached the banks of the Marne
And directed the arrow of conquest towards Paris

30. They forgot or neglected the day Joffre rose up against them
To defend the Marne from the invaders and expel them

31. And they found its waters
Cooling the heat of the attackers

32. But they were disappointed, hope and resource alike
Scorched from the two wars, and the respites they were given

33. Indeed, they did not meet Joffre, but they met
A successor of his, whose grip the earth trembles from

34. They saw Foch in his prime, eager
Taking aim in his battle dress and ascending

35. They saw the allied nations determined and matching them
In everything, unified in leadership

36. And they entrusted it to Foch, he is skilled in it
Unhesitating and strong-shouldered and supported

37. And he sufficed in imitating Brusilov, in him
A supporter and ally

38. And then they had prepared and equipped themselves
With all the means of attack and mobilized

39. And they were draining the blood of the Germans
With a lancet of deception probing and bleeding

40. They emptied themselves of all evil in its fullness
Blood that was oozing from their livers

41. Like a cat stupidly licking cold metal
Unaware that the dripping blood is cold

42. And they deluded them that they were tied
By fetters of shortcoming and incapacity

43. And that their emergency Thursday stock
Was depleted or nearly depleted

44. So Foch’s clever scheme uncovered this
Deception for his commanders and they listened and prepared

45. And he shouted at them, “Repel the invaders, encircle them!”
For encirclement, the time has come

46. And from the bank of the Marne they began the attack
And threw those who crossed it into a pit of death

47. There responded the call the brave sons of Columbus
Who came to aid Foch’s army and support it

48. They lashed out against the Germans and mauled them
And the group disbanded, dispersed and scattered

49. And the rest of the armies were quick to follow in their footsteps
And the scene of war spread amongst them

50. There, the allied legions descended on the Germans
With an assault in which they entered and excelled

51. And they launched at them a raid with which
They refuted their claims in what they intended and invalidated

52. And they repelled them plummeting into grave danger
Worried by sorrow for them bunkered down

53. And they inflicted on them a blow, if its echo
Would make solid rock crack, fragment and crumble

54. They unleashed it on them from cannons, its embers
If it touched a sea, it would make it blaze

55. And from crawlers on the ground that were like
Lightning bolts thundering and flashing before destruction

56. Severing the fences of fortresses and detonating
Trenches and burrows of rodents leveling

57. And from aircraft in the sky splitting it
And ascending above the flight of eagles

58. And raining on them from it a flood of shells
And bombarding them with the fire they ignited

59. And every cannon, if it struck a minaret
Would silence the call to prayer from the muted minaret

60. And every bomber behind it a lion of evil
And before it a wild dog competing with it

61. With them, Foch extinguished Bush’s fire
And quenched the breath of the enemies

62. And from their hands, they took cities and villages
So they failed and did not have power to return them

63. And failure had undone their string of hopeful expectations
And upon them the thick darkness of hopelessness blanketed

64. And Heindenberg did not regain them with his plan
But distruction upon them, his shade stretched

65. So they fled on their heels, being turned back from
Lands that they had degraded and humiliated its inhabitants

66. And behind them a pursuing army in whose grasp a flood
Hangs, and in the rears of the fugitives, stabs

67. And in three years they wasted what with their army
They sacrificed four years to establish

68. And they conceded to the allies, even if they did not submit
Destruction would have been their inescapable fate

69. And wrathful retribution was imposed on the butcher Wilhelm
That he be dethroned and banished, expelled

70. And the crown prince found his fate
The opposite of what he had promised

71. And that for Ludendorff to be scared, his hair turns white
As fear made him pale, your luck is gloomy

72. And Heindenberg's luck was not below his
Because you know he was more distressed by you

73. It was enough misery for him to see you were able
To turn away from him as his leader while he could not walk

74. Triumph, O river, and take pride
Your merit for it is clear, not denied

75. And we will not forget your day in the war
But its memory will be preserved among the people

76. By it, the allies won a victory. For it
We praise God and congratulate the allies

77. France inscribed for glory a page
That restored the mention of their past and renewed it

78. And from her conquering armies and fleet for her
Great Britain takes pride, is honored,

79. And because of her absolute dominance America
Is glorified among the whole world and glorified

80. And indeed, O Belgium, you gained what you sought
And triumphed in victory in which your wound is bandaged

81. The allies returned to the Germans, with their day,
Double what they plotted in retaliation

82. And with justice and fairness they received their reward
Whoever sows aggression, reaps evil