See them squirming yonder
Their camp is rank with fear;
No breath dares blow the horn
Only a whispered word -
"The cataphracts are here!"

Belisarius rides at dawn
To greet the barbarians
With steel, fire and sword
He´ll bring them to kneel
Before the Empire´s golden
Double headed Eagle...

"The cataphracts are here!"
The enemy quakes in fear -
Belisarius rides at dawn:
Hellenic blood a´ flowing
In the brave Thracian´s veins...

Emperor Justinian has decreed
That the cataphracts doth march
To free the Eternal City anon
From the clutches of the Ostrogoth...

Belisarius rides at dawn
Proud ahead of a legion
Of cataphracts bound for war
The imperial standard
They carry forth...