If you do fight against your country’s foes,
[♦] Your country’s fat shall pay your pains the hire;
[♦] If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,
260 Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors;
If you do free your children from the sword,
[♦] Your children’s children quit it in your age.
Then, in the name of God and all these rights,
Advance your standards, draw your willing swords.
265 For me, the ransom of my bold attempt
Shall be this cold corpse on the earth’s cold face;