Swift are the acts of Gods, and short their ways + 

Whose purposes to their fulfilment race. + 

That selfsame day saw Love his goal attain; + 

For in a golden chamber were the twain + 

Made one, in Libya’s bower, whence she looks down + 

On a fair city famed in athlete-rings. + 

Kameades’ son hath linked Kyrene’s town + 

At Pytho with the fair flower fortune brings. + 

His victory there hath published wide her name. + 

The city of fair girls with glad acclaim + 

Greets him who brings to her from Delphi lovely fame. + 