1. The hour of the flag watch has come to-

    day; long has my heart borne sorrow.

  2. And I am absent from my post on the battle-

    field—neither retreating nor forsaken.

  3. To die slain in the homeland’s cause

    is better for me than to live infirm.

  4. It is enough for me there as return and resurrection

    that you behold me as its Unknown Soldier.

Sol 6.1