A Nation Once Again

A Nation Once Again

"A Nation Once Again" es una canción, escrita alrededor de 1840 por Thomas Osborne Davis (1814-1845). Davis fue el fundador de un movimiento irlandés cuyo objetivo final era la independencia de Irlanda.

Esta canción es el primer ejemplo del género de música rebelde irlandesa. La canción narra el sueño de una Irlanda libre, como el título sugiere, el sueño de una tierra libre. La letra exhorta, aunque con menos intensidad que otras canciones rebeldes, a los irlandeses a levantarse y luchar por su tierra.

Ha sido cantada por muchos cantantes y grupos irlandeses, como por ejemplo John McCormack, The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, también por Wolfe Tones en 1972, Poxy Boggards, The Irish Tenors (John McDermott, Ronan Tynan, Anthony Kearns) y Sean Conway.

En 2002, "A Nation Once Again" fue votada como la canción más popular según el servicio de votación de oyentes de la BBC venciendo a otros exitazos como Vande Mataran o Dil Dil Pakistan.

Letra:

   When boyhood's fire was in my blood
   I read of ancient freemen,
   For Greece and Rome who bravely stood,
   Three hundred men and three men;
   And then I prayed I yet might see
   Our fetters rent in twain,
   And Ireland, long a province, be.
   A Nation once again!

   A Nation once again,
   A Nation once again,
   And lreland, long a province, be
   A Nation once again!

   And from that time, through wildest woe,
   That hope has shone a far light,
   Nor could love's brightest summer glow
   Outshine that solemn starlight;
   It seemed to watch above my head
   In forum, field and fane,
   Its angel voice sang round my bed,
   A Nation once again!

   It whisper'd too, that freedom's ark
   And service high and holy,
   Would be profaned by feelings dark
   And passions vain or lowly;
   For, Freedom comes from God's right hand,
   And needs a Godly train;
   And righteous men must make our land
   A Nation once again!

   So, as I grew from boy to man,
   I bent me to that bidding
   My spirit of each selfish plan
   And cruel passion ridding;
   For, thus I hoped some day to aid,
   Oh, can such hope be vain?
   When my dear country shall be made
   A Nation once again!

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