55 Días en Pekín
Lorenzo Valverde
55 Days in Beijing
It was the year nineteen hundred
Beijing was drenched in blood
And in its foundations
The city shook
The Yellow Boxers
Eager to do harm
Sharpened their knives
With the instincts of jackals
The Empress of China
Encouraged them in their zeal
And her ivory hand
Signed the decree
"Kill the foreigner!"
She shouted like a trumpet
Because I don’t want them
Fifty-five days in Beijing
The men of the legations
Joined together, full of courage
Their hearts
To defend their honor
French and Italians
Alongside the Russians
And the Americans
Great Britain and Japan
In total, eleven nations
Took up their rifles
And fought like lions
Against the fourteen thousand
The Boxers were defeated
And their uprising was crushed
The cannons and the trumpet
Are silent now
"Remember from the start to the end
Fifty-five days in Beijing!"
