As seafarers hail as the first boon of Heaven + 

That their sails by a fair-speeding wind be fanned + 

When the anchor is weighed, as an earnest given + 

Of yet fairer return to the home-land’s strand, + 

So reason enkindleth the expectation + 

That with this fair fortune linked hand in hand + 

Shall the fame be of this thy new creation + 

For athletes and horses and glad celebration + 

Of her name by the singers. O Lycian King + 

And Delian, who lovest Castaly’s spring, + 

Of thy goodwill vouchsafe it, and stablish the thing + 

For this hero-land. + 