Os Pinos

Os Pinos

English: The Pines
National anthem of Galicia
Lyrics	Eduardo Pondal, 1907
Music	Pascual Veiga, 1907
Adopted	1977

Os Pinos (The Pines) is the anthem of Galicia. The lyrics are by Eduardo Pondal (the two first parts of his poem Queixumes dos pinos - Lamentations of the Pines) and the music by Pascual Veiga. It was composed in Havana, Cuba, where it was performed for the first time in 1907. It was officially adopted by the Galician authorities in 1977.

Lyrics

Galicia

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Galician Que din os rumorosos na costa verdecente, ó raio transparente do prácido luar? Que din as altas copas de escuro arume harpado co seu ben compasado monótono fungar? Do teu verdor cinguido e de benignos astros, confín dos verdes castros e valeroso chan, non deas a esquecemento da inxuria o rudo encono; desperta do teu sono fogar de Breogán. Os bos e xenerosos a nosa voz entenden, e con arroubo atenden o noso rouco son, mais só os iñorantes, e féridos e duros, imbéciles e escuros non os entenden, non. Os tempos son chegados dos bardos das idades que as vosas vaguidades cumprido fin terán; pois onde quer, xigante a nosa voz pregoa a redenzón da boa nazón de Breogán.

English What do the murmurers say On the verdant coast Under the transparent beam Of the calm moonlight? What do the lofty treetops Of dark bent pine twigs say In their harmonious Monotonous buzzing? Girded by thy greenness, And by benign stars, Bound of the green hill forts And worthy land, Do not let into oblivion The harsh rancour of insult; Awaken from thy slumbers, O hearth of Breoghan. The good and generous Our voice do understand, And eagerly they hearken To our rough sounds; But only the ignorant, And barbaric and hard, Those foolish and dark Do not understand us. The times are now upon us Sung by the ancient bards, When all your wanderings Shall promptly meet their end; For everywhere, gigantic, Our voice loudly proclaimeth The redemption of the good Nation of Breoghan.

Trivia

In WC1982, at the Poland vs Italy match at Vigo, Os Pinos was played mistakenly instead of Mazurek Dąbrowskiego; however, Mazurek Dąbrowskiego was played after the Italian anthem beside the Spanish one.

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