Hiero!⁠—yea, for the rod of his power + 

Is a sceptre of righteousness stretched o’er the land + 

Of the myriad flocks; and the choice of the flower + 

Of chivalry ever is plucked by his hand. + 

Yea, and he also is garlanded + 

With the blossom of song enstarring his head, + 

The song that with gladsome voices now + 

We singers chant, at the banquet meeting + 

Of the Prince who giveth us friendship’s greeting. + 

Now, O my Muse, from its rest take thou + 

The lyre that is strung to the Dorian strain, + 

If the glory of fleet Pherenikus, he + 

Who triumphed in Pisa’s Olympian plain, + 

Haply with rapture of song thrilled thee, + 

When flashed in the course by Alpheus’ river + 

His body by lash or by goad touched never, + 

And wedded to victory + 