1. They threatened us with shackles or with arms
And roared with snarls or with barks

2. They devoured our hunger and walked on our
Red embers, like horses...galloping

3. They beat drums over us and covered
Their shame with pretended decency

4. They threatened, the march will not stop until
Dawn creeps from all sides

5. I swear we will not stop until we see
The banner of victory in the shining day

6. They scared us with death: We undervalued
Our precious souls in the noble struggle

7. We grew accustomed to misery as the
Nights grow used to the autumn winds

8. We scorned beheading and bloodied
Death in the tavern of the killer

9. So dig our path with graves, for we
Will march on either to burial or success

10. We are a people exhausted by imagining death
And challenged the erasing hand of time

11. Whenever the tyrants bloodied a wing
We bloodied their necks with a wing

12. Prison and shackles made me not tired
And kept my jailer awake while I slept

13. Wakeful like the stars, bringing forth the dawn
And guiding it with my wounds

14. O you who toy with the people, extend
Our night and fill it with ghosts

15. Mine our path: Stretch out our darkness
And extinguish the embers and wait for dawn

16. We will walk on wounds until
We ignite the dawn from the blaze of wounds

17. So desecrate our blood until it flows
And the dawn's garden flows with violated blood

18. Only virtues grow on land
"Fertilized" with the bones of martyrs

19. And the blood of martyr is the greenest cave
In the forehead of glorious heroism

20. Our wounds on the horizon are more radiant
Than any glowing sunset and more adorning than any robe

21. We heeded the call of dignity when
The unjust tyrant reveled in vileness

22. And built a palace from the ribs of the oppressed
And the hunger of the laborer and peasant

23. So we tore out from his chest the heart of "Greed"
And from his face the mask of "Tyranny"

24. We marched to him over blood
And over fire, spears and swords

25. And we rushed to our deaths as if
We wished for death at every moment

26. No wind shook our lamp; our blood was
The oil in the mouth of the lamp

27. We are a people who plunged into dawn an awesome
Jaw gaping on the road like a crocodile

28. And crossed the night like snakes' tongues
While the path stormed with waves

29. And our blood gushed in the dark meadows
Like perfume blown in the winds

30. Between us and our goal is one resolute
Step, leaping like the dawn, ambitious

31. I swear we will not stop marching until
We braid dawn the brow of struggle