National anthem of Guatemala

The "Himno Nacional de Guatemala" is the national anthem of Guatemala.

Lyrics
Spanish originalEnglish translationI
Happy Guatemala...! May your altars
Never be profaned by the tormentor,
Nor there be slaves who lick the yoke
Nor tyrants who spit on your face.

If tomorrow your sacred ground
Is threatened by foreign invasion
Free to the wind, your beautiful flag
Will call to victory or death.

Free to the wind, your beautiful flag
Will call to victory or death;
May your people with fierce spirit
Be rather dead than a slave.

II
From your old and hard chains
You forged with an angry hand
The plough that fertilises the soil,
And the sword that saves honour.

Our fathers fought one day
Burning with national ardour,
And managed without bloody clash
To place you on a throne of love.

And managed without bloody clash
To place you on a throne of love,
Which from fatherland in energetic focus
Gave life to the redemptive ideal.

III
Your ensign is a piece of heaven
In which a cloud catches its whiteness
And woe to he who with blind madness
Intends to stain its colours!

Because your brave and proud children,
Who worship peace as a prize,
Never dodge the rough fight
If they defend their land and their home.

Never dodge the rough fight
If they defend their land and their home,
May only honour be their venerable idea
And the altar of the fatherland their altar.

IV
Lying on the superb Andes
From two seas to the sonorous noise
Under the wing of scarlet and gold
You fall asleep to the beautiful quetzal.

Indian bird that lives on your coat of arms,
Palladium that protects your soil
May it take its flight
More than the condor and the golden eagle!

May it take its flight
More than the condor and the golden eagle,
And on its wings lift up to the sky,
Guatemala, your immortal name!

References

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Category:National symbols of Guatemala