The Standard Bearer: And we also remain motionless at this threshold of the world.
By what a path we have come, rising out of the West like a bird!
O young man new to the army,
Assuredly you will see the King of the world reigning, but you have not seen what we have seen!
Terror and bewilderment march before him, and, as if they did not know how to use them,
Armies lay down their arms upon the ground.
He has appeared in the midst of cowards,
He has rushed among the multitudes like a lion attacking a drove of pigs!
And they have arisen against him like the sea, and they have subsided and lapped the dust at his feet.
And now we appear at the door, confronting ancient Asia!