Unknown - Romania Anthem Text lyrics

"Awaken Thee, Romanian!"

Awaken thee, Romanian, shake off the deadly slumber

The scourge of inauspicious barbarian tyrannies

And now or never to a bright horizon clamber

That shall to shame put all your nocuous enemies.

It's now or never to the world we readily proclaim

In our veins throbs and ancestry of Roman

And in our hearts for ever we glorify a name

Resounding of battle, the name of gallant Trajan.

Do look imperial shadows, Michael, Stephen, Corvinus

At the Romanian nation, your mighty progeny

With arms like steel and hearts of fire impetuous

It's either free or dead, that's what they all decree.

Priests, rise the cross, this Christian army's liberating

The word is freedom, no less sacred is the end

We'd rather die in battle, in elevated glory

Than live again enslaved on our ancestral land.

Sent by Carlos André Pereira da Silva Branco