Hear, O thou Daughter of Zeus the Deliverer, Fortune the Saver + 

From peril! Keep watch and ward, I implore, + 

Over Himera, burg of the far-stretching might; for ’tis by thy favour + 

That ships be steered to their haven-shore + 

Over the sea; and torrent-like wars, and council-decisions + 

Be guided on land. Tossed high, whelmed low + 

Be the hopes of men, as over a sea of delusive visions + 

Cleaving the treacherous waves they go. + 

But through all the years never any of men on the earth abiding + 

Hath found sure tokens from God to reveal + 

How he shall fare in the days to come, but in darkness hiding + 

Are the future’s warnings of woe or weal. + 

Many chances to men have befallen, yea, past all expectation: + 

Some plunge from joy into sorrow’s abyss; + 

And some, who have battled with troublous surges, by sudden mutation + 

Their anguish have changed for the height of bliss. + 

O son of Philanor, verily even thy swift feet’s glory + 

Had as dead leaves faded, unmarked, uncrowned, + 

There by the hearth of thy fathers: thy name had been heard not in story; + 

As a home-fighting cock hadst thou been unrenowned, + 

Had contention in Knossus of burgher with burgher in conflict gory + 

In the homeland not left thee no foot of ground. + 

But now at Olympia, Ergoteles, winning a victory-garland + 

And at Isthmus, at Pytho, twain⁠—by these + 

Thou exaltest to honour the steaming Baths of the Nymphs in a far land, + 

On thine own lands dwelling in stormless peace. + 