Wearying your beaks, shall clog your scaly feet

With foreign gore. Soon will ye learn to know,

Followers and harbingers of blood, the flag

Of Leon where it bids you to your feast!

Terror and flight shall with that flag go forth,

And Havoc and the Dogs of War and Death.

Thou Covadonga with the tainted stream

Of Deva, and this now rejoicing vale,

Soon its primitial triumphs wilt behold!

Nor shall the glories of the noon be less