"La Espero" (English: "The Hope") is a poem written by Polish-Jewish doctor L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917), the initiator of the Esperanto language.

Nia diligenta kolegaro en laboro paca ne laciĝos, ĝis la bela sonĝo de l' homaro por eterna ben' efektiviĝos.

Not to a bloodthirsty sword does it draw the human family: to the eternally fighting world it promises sacred harmony.

Walls of millennia stand firmly between the divided people; but the stubborn barriers will jump apart, knocked apart by the sacred love.

Our diligent set of colleagues in peaceful labor will never tire, until the beautiful dream of humanity for eternal blessing is realized.