Above the long Andean lands!

Gier-eagle, guard the eastern sands

Where the forsaken camel strays!

Beetle and worm and I will ward

The feastful graves of lout and lord.

O, warm and bright the blood that lies

Upon the wounded lion’s trail!

Hyena, laugh, and jackal, wail

And ring him round, who turns and dies!

Beetle and worm and I will ward