Chalayim Almonim - Unknown Soldiers
by Avraham Stern

(interpreted from Hebrew)

Unknown soldiers we are without uniform                  
And all around us terror and great darkness           
We are all mobilized to the end of our life                                                                               
Set free from, rank only by death                   

From the seas of red riots and bloodshed                 
In nights, the blackness of despair                 
Burns candles with atonement, we raise our banner                                                            
And on it: Defense and Conquest

We are not recruited by whip like a mob of slaves                                                                     
In order to spill our blood on foreign land                                                                         
Our desire: Towards seeing that forever we are free-borns
Our dream: To die for our nation                                 

From all sides, myriads of obstacles                     
Putting suspense on cruel fate                                                                                    
But our enemies, spies, or shakles                                                                  
Cannot stop our advance               

And if we fall in battle, in streets, in wastelands                                                                   
Bury us in slowly by night                                                                                      
Others will come in place of us          
To protect and to guard forever

Built with mother's tears of lost children                                                                              
And with untained babies blood                                                                                  
Like mortar, sticking the corpses into bricks                                                             
And building the establishment of the homeland

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