True Conquerors

Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,)

Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,

Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;

Enough that they've survived at all—long life's unflinching ones!

Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all

      —in that alone,

True conquerors o'er all the rest.