Then rang the close with songs, as music rings through banquet-hall. + 

So voices still the victor sing, and feet the revel tread. + 

Now, as the grey beginnings of those contests we recall, + 

We too, in song named after Victory stately-charioted, + 

Will chant the thunder’s praise, the fiery-handed flames that fly + 

In crimson-flickering bolts of Him who wakes the thunder’s cry, + 

And sendeth down upon the earth his lurid-gleaming levin + 

Which sealeth every victory with Zeus’s sign from heaven. + 

And consonant with flutes shall ring my song’s rich melody, + 