1. So we—by my life, beyond all doubt—our settled stand

    is worthier, more enduring in war, and braver.

  2. Whenever the herald of the dawn raid calls, he is answered

    by horsemen of ours, each day tested and proven.

  3. And that day at broad Bistam, when it closed round,

    we girded on its war-gear against them, cinching it tight;

  4. and we bore it as a burden, as though its foremost ranks

    were painted by spear-thrusts with gleaming blood-red dye.

Sol 5.6