Ch 22 · Lesson 24

Song: Preĝo sub la verda standardo

Play the recording, follow the words, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the page teaches the few that are new.

Play the song and read along - tap any word you don't know. Then answer the questions underneath and the lesson completes itself.

Preĝo sub la verda standardo

Prayer under the Green Banner

Lyrics

Strofo 1

, senkorpa ,

o, ,

,

,

, e ,

,

, , , ,

.

Strofo 2

,

dogmoj :

.

, ,

, , ,

,

.

Strofo 3

,

batale;

,

ŝakale.

, , ,

,

u o

!

Strofo 5

;

.

,

.

,

ekkrakos os

,

os .

New words in this song

Comprehension drill

4 questions on what you just read. Get one wrong and the story will show you where it says otherwise.

Words by L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), dated 1905, transcribed from Johannes Dietterle's edition of Zamenhof's Originala Verkaro on Wikisource (poem no. 6). Dietterle's note to no. 6a records that Zamenhof quoted stanzas 1-5 at the end of his speech at the Boulogne-sur-Mer congress, and that a sixth stanza was published separately in 1906. We print stanzas 1, 2, 3 and 5; stanza 4 is in the linked source. The linked video is a spoken reading (no melody) by Neide Barros Rêgo, from a video awarded in the UEA's Belartaj Konkursoj in 1998. Zamenhof died in 1917, so the words are long out of copyright. Source text. Translation ours.

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Lesson 24 of 29 in this chapter

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