Colombian
National Anthem
Oh, unfading glory!
Oh, inmortal joy!
In furrows of pain,
the good now germinates.
The
fearful night has
ceased.
Liberty sublime
shines forth the dawning
of its invincible
light.
All of mankind,
moaning in chains,
understands the words
of the one who died
on the cross.
"Independence!"
cries
the American world;
The land of Columbus.
Is bathed in heroes'
blood.
But this great principle;
"The king is
not sovereign",
resounds, and those
who suffer
bless their passion.
The
Orinoco's bed
Is heaped with plunder,
The river runs
With blood and weeping.
In Bárbula
neither soul nor eyes,
know whether to feel
shock
or to suffer fright.
On the shores of the
Caribbean,
the famished people
fight,
choosing the horrors
over fickle health.
O, aye! for Cartagena
heavy is the hardship,
but her virtue
disdains death's rubble.
From
Boyacá in the
fields,
the genius of glory,
for every ear a hero
undefeated crowned.
Soldiers without breastplate
won victory;
their virile breath
as shield served.
Bolívar crosses
the Andes
that two oceans bathe,
swords as sparks
shine in Junín.
Untameable centaurs
descend to the plains,
and a prescience begins
to be felt,
the epic' end has
come.
The
victorious trumpet
in Ayacucho loudly
thunders,
that in every triumph
grows
its formidable sound.
In its expansive thrust
Liberty is worn for
the first time,
from the American
sky
a pavilion forming
up.
In
agony, the Virgin
Tears out her hair,
and bereft of her
love,
leaves it to hang
on a cypress.
Regretting her hope
is covered by a cold
headstone,
but glorious pride
hallows her fair skin.
Thus the motherland
is formed,
Thermopylaes are breaking
forth;
constellation of cyclops
its night brightened.
The trembling flower
finding the wind mortal,
underneath the laurels
its safety sought.
But
it's not complete
glory
to defeat in battle,
that the arm that
fights
is encouraged by truth.
For independence alone
The great clamour
doesn't silence;
if the sun illuminates
everyone,
justice is liberty.
From
men the rights
Nariño's preaching,
the soul of struggle
was prophetically
taught.
When Ricaurte in San
Mateo,
in atoms flying,
"Duty before
life,"
with flames he wrote.
Source
Capital
Bogotá
Independence
Day
July
20 1810
Population
50,882,891
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latest population
Colombia
Police
Police
Emergency
numbers
119
Bordering
countries
Brazil,
Ecuador, Panama, Peru,
Venezuela
Maritime boundaries