Babble not thou in witless folly + 

Of battle and war of Immortals, nor dare + 

Blaspheme them! Nay, to the city holy + 

Of Protogeneia thy song-gift bear, + 

Telling how by His dooming who wields evermore + 

The flickering lightning, the thunder’s roar, + 

Deukalion and Pyrrha long of yore + 

Fixed their first habitation there, + 

When down from Parnassus they came, and unmated + 

Of Aphrodite in wedlock-yoke, + 

Out of the stones of the field created + 

A race that should be thenceforth one folk; + 

And from stones were they named, that stone-born race. + 

Awaken for these thy clear-ringing lays! + 

O yea, old wine well mayest thou praise; + 

But ’tis song’s fresh flowers that our praises provoke. + 