Dominican Republic
Original Spanish Words
Quisqueyanos valientes alcemos
nuestro canto con viva emoción
Y del mundo a la faz ostentemos
Nuestro invicto glorioso pendón
Salve el pueblo que intrepido y fuerte
A la guerra a morir se lanzó
Cuando en belico reto de muerte
Sus cadenas de esclavo rompio.
Ningun pueblo ser libre merece
Si es esclavo, indolente y servil,
Si en su pecho la llama no crece
Que templo el heroismo viril.
Mas Quisqueya dla indomita y brava
Siempre altiva la frente alzará,
Que si fuere mil veces esclava
Otras tantas ser libre sabra.
English Translation
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.
