National anthem of the Transvaal

Volkslied van Transvaal
	National anthem of the Transvaal Republic
Lyrics	Catharina van Rees, 1875
Music	Catharina van Rees, 1875
Audio sample
	The national anthem of the South African Republic; (Instrumental) file; help;

The "Volkslied van Transvaal" (English: "National Anthem of the Transvaal") was the national anthem of the Transvaal Republic, also known as the South African Republic, written and composed by Catharina van Rees in 1875.[1]

Lyrics

Original

Kent gij dat volk vol heldenmoed
En toch zo lang geknecht?
Het heeft geofferd goed en bloed
Voor vrijheid en voor recht
Komt burgers! laat de vlaggen wapp'ren
Ons lijden is voorbij;
Roemt in de zege onzer dapp'ren
Dat vrije volk zijn wij!
Dat vrije volk, dat vrije volk
Dat vrije, vrije volk zijn wij!

Kent gij dat land zo schaars bezocht
En toch zo heerlijk schoon
Waar de natuur haar wond'ren wrocht
En kwistig stelt ten toon?
Transvalers! laat ons feestlied schallen
Daar waar ons volk hield stand
Waar onze vreugdeschoten knallen
Daar is ons vaderland!
Dat heerlijk land, dat heerlijk land
Dat is, dat is ons vaderland!

Kent gij die Staat, nog maar een kind
In 's werelds Statenrij
Maar toch door 't machtig Brits bewind
Weleerd verklaard voor vrij?
Transvalers! edel was uw streven
En pijnlijk onze smaad
Maar God die uitkomst heeft gegeven
Zij lof voor d'eigen Staat!
Looft onze God! looft onze God!
Looft onze God voor land en Staat!

Translation

Know thee the folk full of heroism,
And yet so long oppressed?
It hath offered property and blood
For freedom and for righteousness.
Come citizens! Let the flags wave
Our suffering is over;
Praise the victories of our braves:
That free folk are we!
That free folk, that free folk,
That free, free folk are we!

Know you the land, so little known,
And yet so truly clean;
Where the nature bestows her wonders,
And luxuriantly sets and tones?
Transvaalers! let our anthem ring out!
Where firmly our folk must stand
Where our salutes were fired,
There is our fatherland!
The honest land, the honest land
That is, that is our fatherland!

Know you the state, still yet a child
In the rank of the world's states,
But yet by mighty British powers
Long ago declared free?
Transvaalers! noble was our strive,
And painful our slander,
But God gave the outcome,
Praise Him for our State!
Praise our God! praise our God!
Praise our God for land and State!

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gollark: One of these days I really ought to add login and CSRF prevention.

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gollark: The RPC thing and some JS hax on the client mean I can basically just call any function the server provides as if it's a local one (except asynchronously).

gollark: minoteaur is just plain RPC - you do `POST /rpc` with a function and its arguments as JSON.

References

Flags of the World Transvaalse Volkslied, Accessed on 9 April 2007

External links

National Anthem of the Transvaal, Verses 1 and 3
Sousa, John Philip (1890). National, Patriotic and Typical Airs of all Lands. H. Coleman. p. 253.

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[1] Flags of the World Transvaalse Volkslied, Accessed on 9 April 2007

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