Forbidden by the partitioners Dąbrowski's Mazurkawritten by Józef Wybicki, a writer, politician and soldier, gained the status of the national anthem already during the November Uprising in 1830. Formally it became so on February 26, 1927.
The first national anthem is considered to be "Bogurodzica" sung in 1410 by the Polish knights before the battle of Grunwald. The next was a church song "The Deum laudamus", then commissioned by King August Poniatowski "Święta miłości kochanej ojczyzny". Before the January Uprising the role of the anthem was played by the song "Boże coś Polskę" (God save Poland).
That said Dąbrowski's Mazurka It has stolen the hearts of Poles and for 90 years has been a true manifestation of Polishness.
Official Anthem Text:
Poland is not yet lost,
While we are alive.
What foreign violence has taken from us,
We'll pick it up with a saber.
March, march Dabrowski,
From Italian soil to Poland.
By your lead
I will join with the nation.
I will cross the Vistula, I will cross the Warta,
We will be Poles.
Bonaparte gave us an example,
How to Win We Have.
March, march...
Like Czarniecki to Poznań
After the Swedish partition,
To save the homeland
I will go back across the sea.
March, march...
Already there father to his Basia
He says weeping -
Just listen, we're supposed to
They beat the tarabans.
March, march...
