1. An army beyond all reckoning, invisible
What was absent from its regions, limited

2. And it surges endlessly, its numbers
Beyond all counting, massed, assembled

3. As though God appointed the banners' poles
As banners for it, and standards

4. Its dreadful power destroys its enemies
Before the encounter, threatening and warning

5. You see its flash and hear its rustle
And think it lightnings and thunder

6. And it is as though the whinnying of the horses
Is a wave, advancing into the stirred-up dust

7. Whoever was not supported in the fray
By its defense, knew no support

8. It encounters havoc, raging
And glory in its banners, condensed

9. And when the impatience of its horses rears up
They abandon regret for their ascent, the ascent