. Usually only its first two stanzas are sung at national celebrations. The official anthem is sung at the beginning of ceremonies, and
Szózat
- Hazádnak rendületlenűl
- Légy híve, oh magyar;
- Bölcsőd az s majdan sírod is,
- Mely ápol s eltakar.
- A nagy világon e kivűl
- Nincsen számodra hely;
- Áldjon vagy verjen sors keze:
- Itt élned, halnod kell.
- Ez a föld, melyen annyiszor
- Apáid vére folyt;
- Ez, melyhez minden szent nevet
- Egy ezredév csatolt.
- Itt küzdtenek honért a hős
- Árpádnak hadai;
- Itt törtek össze rabigát
- Hunyadnak karjai.
- Szabadság! itten hordozák
- Véres zászlóidat,
- S elhulltanak legjobbjaink
- A hosszu harc alatt.
- És annyi balszerencse közt,
- Oly sok viszály után,
- Megfogyva bár, de törve nem,
- Él nemzet e hazán.
- S népek hazája, nagy világ!
- Hozzád bátran kiált:
- "Egy ezredévi szenvedés
- Kér éltet vagy halált!"
- Az nem lehet hogy annyi szív
- Hiában onta vért,
- S keservben annyi hű kebel
- Szakadt meg a honért.
- Az nem lehet, hogy ész, erő,
- És oly szent akarat
- Hiába sorvadozzanak
- Egy átoksúly alatt.
- Még jőni kell, még jőni fog
- Egy jobb kor, mely után
- Buzgó imádság epedez
- Százezrek ajakán.
- Vagy jőni fog, ha jőni kell,
- A nagyszerű halál,
- Hol a temetkezés fölött
- Egy ország vérben áll.
- S a sírt, hol nemzet sűlyed el,
- Népek veszik körűl,
- S az ember millióinak
- Szemében gyászköny űl.
- Légy híve rendületlenűl
- Hazádnak, oh magyar:
- Ez éltetőd, s ha elbukál,
- Hantjával ez takar.
- A nagy világon e kivűl
- Nincsen számodra hely;
- Áldjon vagy verjen sors keze:
- Itt élned, halnod kell.
Written by Mihály VörösmartyMihály Vörösmarty was an important Hungarian poet and dramatist.He was born at Puszta-Nyék , of a noble Roman Catholic family. His father was a steward of the Nádasdys. Mihály was educated at Székesfehérvár by the Cistercians and at Pest by the Piarists...
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Literal Translation
- To your homeland without fail
- Be faithful, O Hungarian!
- It is your cradle and will your grave be
- Which nurses, and will bury you.
- In the great world outside of here
- There is no place for you
- May fortune's hand bless or beat you
- Here you must live and die!
- This ground
[Literally rather "this is the ground ..."] on which so many times
- Your fathers' blood flowed
- This, to which, every holy name
- One thousand years has coupled
- Here fought for home the hero
- Arpad's hosts
- Here broke apart the prisoner's yoke
- Hunyadi's arms
- Freedom! Here is carried
- Your bloody standard
- And our best were felled
- During the long war
- And through so much ill fortune
- After many feuds,
- Though depleted, but not broken
- The nation lives on this homeland.
- And home of the nations, great earth!
- Shouts bravely to you:
- "A thousand years of suffering
- demands life or death!"
- It cannot be, that so many hearts
- Uselessly spilled their blood
- And in vain, so many faithful hearts
- Were broken for the homeland.
- It cannot be that mind, might
- And so holy a will
- Would uselessly wither
- Under the weight of a curse;
- It still needs to come, it still will come
- A better age, for which
- Fervent prayer yearns
- On hundreds of thousands' lips.
- Or it will come, if it must come
- The glorious death
- Where above the funeral
- A nation wallows in blood
- And the grave, where the nation is lowering,
- Nations surround
- And in the millions of peoples'
- Eyes, a tear of mourning wells.
- Be faithful, without fail
- To your homeland, O Hungarian:
- This is your succor, and if you fall
- With its grave it covers you
- In the great world outside of here
- There is no place for you
- May fortune's hand bless or beat you
- Here you must live and die!
Translated by Laszlo Korossyhttp://www.korossy.org/magyar/szozat.html |
Lyrical Translation
- Oh, Magyar, keep immovably
- your native country's trust,
- for it has borne you, and at death
- will consecrate your dust!
- No other spot in all the world
- can touch your heart as home—
- let fortune bless or fortune curse,
- from hence you shall not roam!
- This is the country that your sires
- have shed their blood to claim;
- throughout a thousand years not one
- but adds a sacred name.
- 'Twas here brave Árpád
Árpád was the second Grand Prince of the Hungarians . Under his rule the Hungarian people settled in the Carpathian basin. The dynasty descending from him ruled the Hungarian tribes and later the Kingdom of Hungary until 1301...
's mighty sword
- ordained your land to be,
- and here the arms of Hunyad broke
- the chains of slavery.
- Here Freedom's blood-stained flag has waved
- above the Magyar head;
- and here in age-long struggles fell
- our best and noblest, dead.
- In spite of long calamity
- and centuries of strife,
- our strength, though weakened, is not spent;
- our country still has life.
- To you, O nations of the world,
- we call with passioned breath:
- "Should not a thousand years of pain
- bring liberty—or death?"
- It cannot be that all in vain
- so many hearts have bled,
- that haggard from heroic breasts
- so many souls have fled!
- It cannot be that mind and strength
- and consecrated will
- are wasted in a hopeless cause
- beneath a curse of ill!
- There yet shall come, if come there must,
- that better, fairer day
- for which a myriad thousand lips
- in fervent yearning pray.
- Or there shall come, if come there must,
- a death of fortitude;
- and round about our graves shall stand
- a nation washed in blood.
- Around the graves where we shall die
- a weeping world will come,
- and millions will in pity gaze
- upon the martyrs' tomb.
- Then, Magyar, keep unshakeably
- your native country's trust,
- for it has borne you and at death
- will consecrate your dust!
- No other spot in all the world
- can touch your heart as home;
- let fortune bless or fortune curse,
- from hence you shall not roam!
Translated by Watson KirkconnellWatson Kirkconnell, was a Canadian scholar, university administrator and translator. He is well known in Iceland, Eastern and Central Europe and among Canadians of different origins for his translations of their national poetry, particularly the Hungarians, Ukrainians, Russians, Serbians,...
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