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...