€A LOS PUEBLOS DE AMERICA INFAUSTO, TRES CENTURIAS UN CETRO OPRIMIO, MAS UN DIA SOBERBIA SURGIENDO, BASTA! DIJO Y EL CETRO ROMPIO. NUESTROS PADRES LIDIANDO GRANDIOSOS, ILUSTARON SU GLOIA MARCIAL; Y TROZADA LA AUGUSTA DIADEMA, ENALZARON EL GORRO TRIUNFAL! Y TROZADA LA AUGUSTA DIADEMA, ENALZARON EL GORRO TRIUNFAL! PARAGUAYOS, REPUBLICA O MUERTE! NUESTRO BRIO NOS DIO LIBERTAD; NI OPRESORES NI SIERVOS, ALIENTAN, DONDE REINAN UNION, E IGUALDAD. NI OPRESORES NI SIERVOS, ALIENTAN, DONDE REINAN UNION, E IGUALDAD. E IGUALDAD, UNION, E IGUALDAD. ONCE THE LANDS OF AMERICA, SAD AND OPPRESSED, 'NEATH A SCEPTRE FOR THREE CENTURIES REMAINED. BUT ONE DAY, WITH THEIR PASSION ARISING, 'TIS ENOUGH! THEY CRIED AND BROKE THE POWERS THAT HAD REIGNED. OUR FOREFATHERS, MAGNIFICENTLY FIGHTING, SHOWED THEIR MARTIAL GLORY AND POW'R, AND WHEN THEY THE AUGUST DIADEM HAD TAKEN, THEY JOINED TO IT A CAP OF TRIUMPH IN THAT HOUR, AND WHEN THEY THE AUGUST DIADEM HAD TAKEN, THEY JOINED TO IT A CAP OF TRIUMPH IN THAT HOUR, PARAGUAYANS, REPUBLIC OR DEATH WE CHOOSE! 'TWAS OUR STRENGTH THAT GAVE US OUR FINAL LIBERTY, NEITHER TYRANTS NOR SLAVES CAN CONTINUE, WHERE THERE REIGN EQUALITY AND UNITY. NEITHER TYRANTS NOR SLAVES CAN CONTINUE, WHERE THERE REIGN EQUALITY AND UNITY, WHERE REIGN EQUALITY AND WHERE REIGN UNITY.