1. This life was but a raging war
That legions traverse ruthlessly

2. For war's evils in every age
Spring from complacent docility

3. In vain the land denied the light
Protests against the heavens' tyranny

4. Only through people, knowledge, and art
Can renaissance burst forth bounteously

5. No raven's cawing if mistreated
Nor sea but has its billows tumultuously