"Salve, Oh Patria!" ("We Salute You, Our Homeland") is the national anthem of Ecuador. The author of the lyrics, Juan Leon Mera , later served as president of the Ecuadorian Senate . The song was composed by Antonio Neumane . The anthem was officially adopted in 1886.
Spanish lyrics
- CORO:
- Salve, Oh Patria, mil veces!
- ¡Oh Patria, Gloria a ti ! Gloria a ti!
- Ya tu pecho, tu pecho, rebosa
- Gozo y paz ya tu pecho rebosa;
- Y tu frente, tu frente radiosa
- Más que el sol contemplamos lucir,
- Y tu frente, tu frente radiosa
- Más que el sol contemplamos lucir.
- Los primeros los hijos del suelo
- Que soberbio, el Pichincha decora
- Te aclamaron por siempre señora
- Y vertieron su sangre por ti.
- Dios miró y a ceptó el holocausto
- Y esa sangre fue germen fecundo
- De otros héroes que atónito el mundo
- Vió en tu torno a millares surgir.
- a millares surgir,
- a millares surgir.
English translation
- CHORUS:
- O homeland, we greet you a thousand times!
- Glory be to you, O homeland, glory be to you!
- Your breast overflows with joy and peace,
- And we see your radiant face shining
- More brightly than the sun.
- The worthy sons of the soil
- Which Pichincha on high is adorning,
- Always acclaimed you as sovereign lady
- And shed their blood for you.
- God observed and accepted the sacrifice,
- And that blood was the prolific seed
- Of other heroes whom the world in astonishment saw
- Arising in thousands around you.
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