1. Our drinking is not tainted by cowardice, though
Nausea and sickness may be granted us.

2. I summon young men like swords, among them
No weakling, none assigned a lesser role.

3. White-skinned, though the winter rain
Breaks over them, and they are drenched, they bear it;

4. They do not flinch from the steep path though
The caller urges them to descend and camp.

5. In the melee of horsemen there must
Be left to them on the battlefield a hero.

6. The down on his cheek is still sparse -
A seething mass, whom missiles cannot check.