This document is an excerpt from "La Marseillaise", the French national anthem. It calls French citizens to arms against tyranny and foreign invaders threatening to subjugate France once more. It urges the French people to take up arms and march into battle, letting their enemies' blood water the fields, so that France may remain free.

1. La Marseillaise

2. Allons enfants de la Patrie Arise children of the fatherland
Le jour de gloire est arrivé. The day of glory has arrived
Contre nous, de la tyrannie, Against us tyranny's
L'étandard sanglant est levé, Bloody standard is raised

3. Entendez-vous, dans la compagnes. Listen to the sound in the
fields
Mugir ces farouches soldats The howling of these
fearsome soldiers
Ils viennent jusque dans nos bras They are coming into our
midst
Egorger vos fils, vos compagnes. To cut the throats of your
sons and company

4. Aux armes citoyens! To arms citizens
Formez vos bataillons, Form your battalions
Marchons, marchons! March, march
Qu'un sang impur Let impure blood
Abreuve nos sillons. Water our furrows

5. What do they want this horde of slaves
Of traitors and conspiratorial kings?
For whom these vile chains
These long-prepared irons?

6. Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What methods must be taken?
It is us they dare plan
To return to the old slavery!

7. Aux armes citoyens! To arms citizens
Formez vos bataillons, Form your battalions
Marchons, marchons! March, march
Qu'un sang impur Let impure blood
Abreuve nos sillons. Water our furrows

8. What! These foreign
cohorts!
They would make laws in
our courts!
What! These mercenary
phalanxes
Would cut down our
warrior sons

9. Good Lord! By chained hands
Our brow would yield under
the yoke
The vile despots would have
themselves be
The masters of destiny

10. Tremble, tyrants
and traitors
The shame of all
good men
Tremble! Your
parricidal schemes
Will receive their
just reward

11. Against you we are all soldiers
If they fall, our young heros
France will bear new ones
Ready to join the fight against you

12. Frenchmen, as
magnanimous warriors
Bear or hold back your
blows
Spare these sad victims
That they regret taking
up arms against us

13. But not these bloody despots
These accomplices of Bouillé
All these tigers who pitilessly
Ripped out their mothers' wombs

14. We too shall enlist
When our elders'
time has come
To add to the list
of deeds
Inscribed upon
their tombs

15. We are much less jealous of surviving them
Than of sharing their coffins
We shall have the sublime pride
Of avenging or joining them

16. Drive on sacred patriotism
Support our avenging arms
Liberty, cherished liberty
Join the struggle with your
defenders

17. Under our flags, let victory
Hurry to your manly tone
So that in death your enemies
See your triumph and our glory!