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<p>Wingsofwrath: </p> <hr /> <div>The [[Borogravia|Borogravian]] National Anthem is probably one of the most warlike anthems going:<br /> <br /> :''Awake, ye sons of the Motherland!<br /> :''Taste no more the wine of the sour apples<br /> :''Woodsmen, grasp your choppers!<br /> :''Farmers, slaughter with the tool formerly used for lifting beets the foe!<br /> :''Frustrate the endless wiles of our enemies<br /> :''We into the darkness march singing<br /> :''Against the whole world in arms coming<br /> :''But see the golden light upon the mountain tops!<br /> :''The new day is a great big fish!''<br /> <br /> As [[Samuel Vimes]] remarked to Ankh-Morpork's [[Clarence Chinny|diplomatic envoy]] any national anthem that starts with '''Awake!''' is going to cause trouble.<br /> <br /> The last line - whilst problematic to speakers of [[Morporkian]] - is a reference to something good about to happen.<br /> <br /> <br /> A real world equivalent could be the Anthem of {{wp|Romania|Romania}}, an eastern Balkan country with a past not unlike Borogravia's, which also starts with '''Awake!''' and is quite warlike:<br /> <br /> :''Awake, Romanian, shake off the deadly slumber<br /> :''The scourge of inauspicious barbarian tyrannies<br /> :''And now or never to a bright horizon clamber<br /> :''That shall to shame put all your enemies.<br /> <br /> :''It's now or never that we prove to the world<br /> :''That in these veins still flows Roman blood<br /> :''And in our hearts for ever we glorify a name<br /> :''Triumphant in battles, the name of gallant Trajan.<br /> <br /> :''Behold, imperial shadows, Michael, Stephen, Corvinus<br /> :''At the Romanian nation, your mighty progeny<br /> :''With arms like steel and hearts of fire impetuous<br /> :''&quot;Life in liberty, or death&quot;, that's what we all decree.<br /> <br /> :''Priests, raise the cross, as this army is Christian<br /> :''Give it liberty and it's sanctified scope<br /> :''We'd rather die in glorious battle<br /> :''Than live again enslaved on our ancestral land.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Discworld concepts]]<br /> [[Category:Discworld culture]]</div>

Wingsofwrath http://wiki.osiris-web.com/index.php?title=Borogravian_National_Anthem&diff=19072 2014-02-10T10:08:03Z

<p>Wingsofwrath: </p> <hr /> <div>The [[Borogravia|Borogravian]] National Anthem is probably one of the most warlike anthems going:<br /> <br /> :''Awake, ye sons of the Motherland!<br /> :''Taste no more the wine of the sour apples<br /> :''Woodsmen, grasp your choppers!<br /> :''Farmers, slaughter with the tool formerly used for lifting beets the foe!<br /> :''Frustrate the endless wiles of our enemies<br /> :''We into the darkness march singing<br /> :''Against the whole world in arms coming<br /> :''But see the golden light upon the mountain tops!<br /> :''The new day is a great big fish!''<br /> <br /> As [[Samuel Vimes]] remarked to Ankh-Morpork's [[Clarence Chinny|diplomatic envoy]] any national anthem that starts with '''Awake!''' is going to cause trouble.<br /> <br /> The last line - whilst problematic to speakers of [[Morporkian]] - is a reference to something good about to happen.<br /> <br /> <br /> A real world equivalent could be the Anthem of Romania, an eastern Balkan country with a past not unlike Borogravia's, which also starts with '''Awake!''' and is quite warlike:<br /> <br /> :''Awake, Romanian, shake off the deadly slumber<br /> :''The scourge of inauspicious barbarian tyrannies<br /> :''And now or never to a bright horizon clamber<br /> :''That shall to shame put all your enemies.<br /> <br /> :''It's now or never that we prove to the world<br /> :''That in these veins still flows Roman blood<br /> :''And in our hearts for ever we glorify a name<br /> :''Triumphant in battles, the name of gallant Trajan.<br /> <br /> :''Behold, imperial shadows, Michael, Stephen, Corvinus<br /> :''At the Romanian nation, your mighty progeny<br /> :''With arms like steel and hearts of fire impetuous<br /> :''&quot;Life in liberty, or death&quot;, that's what we all decree.<br /> <br /> :''Priests, raise the cross, as this army is Christian<br /> :''Give it liberty and it's sanctified scope<br /> :''We'd rather die in glorious battle<br /> :''Than live again enslaved on our ancestral land.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Discworld concepts]]<br /> [[Category:Discworld culture]]</div>

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