1. You stood as the wolves surrounded you
Steadfast, unyielding, unafraid

2. On your sides the whips rained down
And blood flowed from your limbs

3. Dark hatred seethed around you
As their swords glinted and stabbed

4. You were like a lofty peak as gales
And raging storms thundered about

5. With frozen, stony features, staunch
Though blood soaked through your veil

6. Defiance etched upon your lips
And fiery youth blazed in your eyes

7. As if a coat of iron honor
Shielded you from their claws and fangs

8. The traitors snarled in wrath around you
Like dogs baring their teeth

9. Tormenting you all in vain
Questioning with no reply

10. For one like you, only disdain
Grows for tormentors with greater pain

11. And one like you, only pride
And resolve as cowards yield!

12. You walked, knowing the path
You took, where the riders headed

13. That you begin a grueling course
Full of perils and tribulations

14. Not like those who shrivel and melt
When fire of harm engulfs them

15. Or those who only wish to be
Captains when seas are calm

16. A people called you to bitter struggle
Starvation and ruin beset them

17. And the evils of an age burdened them
Its pillars were sin and pillage

18. A rabble of traitors lost
Their conscience, like worthless dust

19. They found the taste of treachery sweet
As ravens relish rotten flesh

20. Their wickedness and straying knew no bounds
No veil covered their sins

21. They never recalled the woeful day
When their necks bent beneath the rope

22. That their blood is a debt upon them
We will extract when time for judgement comes