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== Anthem == | == Anthem == | ||
The lyrics are in LLSLLLSLLL meter (like the Jewish piyyut Yigdal). | The lyrics are in LLSLLLSLLL meter (like the Jewish piyyut Yigdal). The theme is self-reliance. | ||
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Our ancestors stepped in the fertilizing rocks | Our ancestors stepped in the fertilizing rocks --- the soil which we have walked in out of our cradle of birth. | ||
Our plows dug diligently, since we left the low and high places of the animist spirits. | Our plows dug diligently, since we left the low and high places of the animist spirits. | ||
For the fount of the mountains and the rains of the skies -- their smithy is the beginning of the right time and place. | For the fount of the mountains and the rains of the skies --- their smithy is the beginning of the right time and place. | ||
The world has left us raw material --- Tumhan shall not leave it be! | The world has left us raw material --- Tumhan shall not leave it be! | ||