55 Días en Pekín
Lorenzo Valverde
55 Days in Beijing
It was the year of nineteen hundred
Beijing bathed in blood
And in its foundations
The city trembled
The yellow Boxers
Eager to do harm
Sharpened their knives
With jackal instincts
The Empress of China
Encouraged them in their eagerness
And with her delicate hand
She sealed the sentence
Kill the foreigner!
She shouted like a bugle
Because I don't want them
Fifty-five days in Beijing
The men of the legations
United with courage
Their hearts
To defend their honor
French and Italians
With the Russians in union
And the Americans
Great Britain and Japan
A total of eleven nations
Wielded the rifle
And fought like lions
Against the fourteen thousand
The Boxers were defeated
And their rebellion was crushed
Now silent are
The cannons and the bugle
Remember from the beginning to the end
Fifty-five days in Beijing!
