When to Him of the hair unshorn I come paying + 

Due honour with choral dance-arraying + 

In Keos by sea-waves weltered about⁠— + 

Strains hailed by her shipmen with jubilant shout⁠— + 

And honour the Isthmian ridge that doth sunder + 

Two seas that against its crag-walls thunder. + 

To Kadmus’ people from Isthmus have gone + 

Six crowns in her athlete-contests won + 

To grace with triumphant victory’s glory + 

My motherland, where, as is told in story, + 

Of Alkmena was born that aweless son + 