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==== Second version (September 1830) ==== {{Verse translation|lang=fr| Qui l'aurait cru ? ...de l'arbitraire Consacrant les affreux projets, Sur nous de l'airain militaire Un prince a lancé les boulets. C'en est fait ! Oui, Belges, tout change, Avec Nassau plus d'indigne traité ! La mitraille a brisé l'Orange Sur l'arbre de la Liberté. Trop généreuse en sa colère, La Belgique, vengeant ses droits, D'un roi, qu'elle appelait son père, N'implorait que de justes lois. Mais lui dans sa fureur étrange, Par le canon que son fils a pointé, Au sang belge a noyé l'Orange Sous l'arbre de la Liberté. Fiers brabançons, peuples de braves, Qu'on voit combattre sans fléchir, Du sceptre honteux des Bataves, Tes balles sauront t'affranchir. Sur Bruxelles, au pied de l'archange, Ton saint drapeau pour jamais est planté, Et, fier de verdir sans l'Orange, Croît l'arbre de la Liberté. Et vous, objets de nobles larmes, Braves, morts au feu des cannons, Avant que la patrie en armes Ait pu connaître au moins vos noms, Sous l'humble terre où l'on vous range, Dormez, martyrs, bataillon indompté ! Dormez en paix, loin de l'Orange, Sous l'arbre de la Liberté.| Who could have believed it? ...wilfully Pursuing dreadful plans, On us, with cannon's brass, A prince has opened fire. It has been done! Yes, Belgians, all is changing; No more unworthy treaty with Nassau! Grapeshot has shattered Orange Upon the tree of Liberty. Too generous in her anger, Belgium, avenging her rights, From a king, whom she called her father, Sought no more than just laws. But he, in his unexpected fury, By the cannon aimed by his son Has drowned Orange in Belgian blood Beneath the tree of Liberty. O proud, brave people of Brabant, Seen not to flinch amid the fight, From the Batavians' shameful sceptre Your bullets will set you free. On Brussels, together with the archangel{{efn|[[Michael (archangel)|St. Michael the Archangel]], a patron saint of Brussels. The image seems to be of the Belgian flag flying from the towers of the [[Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula]], Brussels.}} Your holy flag is planted for ever; And, proud to grow green without Orange, Grows higher the tree of Liberty. And you, objects of noble tears, The brave, who died under cannon fire, Before the Fatherland, under arms, Could know at least your names, Beneath the humble earth where you are laid, Sleep, martyrs, unbroken battalion! Sleep in peace, far from Orange, Beneath the tree of Liberty.}}
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