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It’s time to continue our fresh and new, first-edition National Anthems of The World series, here at Musica in Extenso! 

Today it’s for the romanian anthem, the lyrics are written by Andrei Mureșanu and the music was composed by the romanian composer and musicologist, Anton Pann. 

Below, you will find the english translation of the first verse:

Awaken thee, Romanian, wake up from deadly slumber                                   The scourge of inauspicious barbarian tyrannies                                              And now or never to a bright horizon clamber                                                   That shall to shame put all your enemies.