1. Lo, it is a conquest that Conquest itself acknowledges.

    Its outset is felicity, and its end success.

  2. The blessed commander marched by night with the finest detachment;

    triumph went before it, and conquest followed it.

  3. Did you not see him, with six men, bring down the enemy?

    Thus they met a torment whose appointed hour was dawn.

  4. So after this, no covenant for the renegades

    shall be honored for them before the Imam, nor any truce.

  5. They turned and fled in scattered bands through every mountain pass;

    for wounds had touched them, while no wound had touched us.

Sol 5.6