This is my first serious effort at a translation from Galego to English so I expect it will be revised by the next galegofalante to come across the page I would not the following  Ive tried to keep the archaizing bardic tone of Pondal in the translation which is why I translate nazn as folk rather than nation and fogar as hearth rather than home  The quotation marks are to indicate that the first stanza represents questions asked of the pines by the seashore and the remaining verses are their response on behalf of the land of Galicia to its slumbering people