Sol 6.1

  1. Our brothers, welcome—a warm welcome to you!

    Our submission is your due, and our duty.

  2. For our land is a pasture for you that never grows barren.

    There you have lawful, wholesome sustenance.

  3. And it gladdened us to see the homelands

    as allies to their people against the enemy.

  4. So if we have recalled sins of yours,

    your repelling of the foreigner has atoned for them,

  5. as has the fact that they were battles in which you benefited

    those you defeated, just as you yourselves benefited.

  6. You wounded us to awaken us;

    and they lulled us to sleep to shackle us.

  7. And sometimes a young man tests upon his own body

    his weapon, readying it for his foe.

  8. For us, Itō, master of the reins, has rendered

    the service Bismarck rendered to the Germans.

  9. And beneath Buddha's shade we shall find,

    if we unite, a delightful drink.

Sol 6.1