Ja Ons Kom

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The second verse of "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika".


Translation follows:



In the marrow of our bones

In our heart
and soul
and spirit

In our glorying in our past

In our hope as to what shall be

In our will
and working
and wandering

From the crib unto our grave

No other land shares our love

No other loyalty distracts us


Fatherland!
We shall bear the nobility of your name with honour

True and loyal as Africans*

Children of South Africa


* "Afrikaners" = "Africans" at the time the poem was originally written, and is therefore translated here as it was intended. Today, of course, "Afrikaner" more commonly refers to a certain Afrikaans-speaking ethnic group (a.k.a. Boers).