Himno Nacional de Perú

We are free! Let us always be so!
And before the Sun denies its lights
That we fail to keep our solemn vow
That the Homeland raised to the Eternal

For a long time the Peruvian was oppressed
The ominous chain dragged
Condemned to cruel servitude
For a long time he groaned in silence
But hardly the sacred cry
Freedom! On its shores it was heard
The indolence of a slave shakes
The humiliated neck lifted

Already the rumble of hoarse chains
Who listened to three centuries of horror
From the free, to the sacred cry
That the world heard in astonishment, ceased
Everywhere San Martín inflamed
Freedom! Freedom! He pronounced
And the Andes rocking its base
They also announced it with one voice

With its influence the people awaken
And like lightning, the opinion spread
From the Isthmus to the Lands of Fire
From fire to frozen region
Everyone swears to break the link
That Nature denied both worlds
And break that scepter that Spain
She leaned proudly on the two

Lima fulfills its solemn vow
And severe her anger showed
To the powerful tyrant throwing
Who tried to prolong his oppression
At his effort, the irons jumped
And the furrows that he repaired himself
They fueled his hatred and revenge
That he inherited from his Inca and Lord

Compatriots, no more seeing her as a slave
If humiliated for three centuries she groaned
Let us swear to free her forever
Maintaining its own splendor
Our arms, until today unarmed
Always be priming the cannon
That one day the beaches of Iberia
They will feel the terror of its roar

Let us arouse the jealousy of Spain
For he feels with diminution and fury
That in the contest of great nations
Our homeland will enter into comparison
In the list that is formed from these
We will fill in the line first
That the ambitious Iberian tyrant
That devastated all of America

At its summit the Andes hold
The bicolor flag or banner
May the effort be announced to the centuries
That being free, forever gave us
In its shadow we live peacefully
And when the Sun rises from its peaks
Let us renew the great oath
That we surrender to the God of Jacob