Boże, coś Polskę
Boże, coś Polskę ( God Who You Poland ... ) is a Polish song and is sometimes considered the country's second national anthem alongside the Mazurek Dąbrowskiego . It originated from the hymn Pieśń narodowa za pomyślność króla (National Song for the Welfare of the King) by the poet Alojzy Feliński and the composer JN Kaszewski to the Russian Tsar from 1816, inspired by the British God save the King . Just a year later, the refrain within Polish society was changed in such a way that the hated power of division was no longer celebrated. From now on it read: Give us back our fatherland, O Lord! The poet Anton Gorecki added two more to the initially two stanzas . At the same time, the song began to be sung to the melody of the originally French Marian song Serdeczna Matko . In the Russian partition, the anthem was banned in 1862 . A year later they sang the insurgents of the January Uprising under the title Marseillaise 1863 .