The world is full of surprises. I never knew that Spain had a national anthem without words.
To me an anthem without can be as good as an anthem with words, as long as the music is decent. But I understand people who long for text.
So Spain organized a context to write the text for the national anthem. The winner is a 52-year old man, unemployed, who wrote, in an translation by the NY Times:
“Long live Spain!
Let us all sing together
With different voices
And a single heart.
Long live Spain!
From the green valleys
To the vast sea,
A hymn of brotherhood.
Love the Fatherland
As it knows how to embrace,
Beneath its blue sky
Peoples in freedom.
Glory to the children
Who give to history
Justice and greatness,
Democracy and peace.”
This might not be a very good poem, but for an anthem it’s decent enough.