If a man seek noble achievement’s attaining, + 

With his soul’s full energies upward straining, + 

Unsparing alike of cost and pains, + 

Meet is it that when at the last he gains + 

The prize, our ennobling praise he inherit + 

Lavished on him with ungrudging spirit. + 

For easy it is for the bard inspired, + 

When by hard toil won is the goal desired, + 

To acclaim his endeavours with glad laudation, + 

And, along with the man, that the fame of his nation + 

Be set on high to be world-admired. + 