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. + 