For Freedom is menaced: Go sound the alarm!
France needs every son, be they crippled or strong,
To rid our fair land of the murderous horde:
So flock to the Colors, Brave Boys: come along!
And fight till the Glory of France is restored!
Our women are outraged, our children enslaved;
Up, Frenchmen! and strike till the last dying breath!
We can never turn back, so be it engraved
On our spears and escutcheons,—Vengeance or Death!