National Anthem of The Dominican Republic - English Translation

English Translation

Brave Quisqueyans,

Let’s raise our song with vivid emotion,

From the world to the face of the earth

Show our unconquered glorious banner.

Hail, the nation who strong and intrepid,

Into war launched itself set to die

When war threatened with death

Its chains of slavery still it cut off.

No people deserves to have freedom

If it’s a slave, apathetic, or servile;

If in its chest the flame stirred

By man’s heroism doesn’t grow.

But Quisqueya the brave and indomitable

Always proudly her forehead will raise:

For if she were a thousand times a slave

This many times to be free she will know.

And if fraud and cunning exposed her

To disdain of an intrusive man,

Las Carreras! Beler!...were fields

Which covered in glory were seen.

At the top of our heroic bastion,

Word of the free was materialized,

Where the genius of Sanchez and Duarte

Taught us to be free or to die.

And if could inconsiderate leader

Reduce the luster of these glories,

Of the war seen in Capotillo

The banner of fire waves on.

And the fire that leaves shocked

The arrogant lion from Castile,

Removes it from glorious beaches to

Where floats the banner that’s crossed.

Compatriots, let’s show erect our

Forehead, proud of today for;

Quisqueya will be destroyed

But slave again, never.

That she is a sanctuary of love

Lives in every chest of the country;

It is her invincible shield, the law;

It is her motto: Be free or die.

Liberty that still serenely lifts up

Victory in her triumphal carriage.

The trumpet of war still resounds

Proclaiming her immortal glory

Liberty! Let the echoes agitate

While full of noble anxiety

Our battlefields of glory repeat

Liberty! Liberty! Liberty!