To be for the fair-famed land of his mother + 

A ruler of cities, in all thy labour + 

To be ever a loyal friend and brother, + 

O Heracles! If a man may prove + 

Of his fellow-man any fruition of love, + 

Then well may we say that neighbour to neighbour + 

Is a joy that is worth all else beside + 

If with steadfast heart in his love he abide. + 

Now if also a God will sanction this, + 

By thy favour, O queller of giants, it is + 

That, rendering aye love-homage meet + 

To his father, fain would Sogenes + 

Dwell mid ancestral memories + 

In the stately-builded sacred street + 