To the sound of the lyre and the pipe on-sailing + 

Homeward I come with Diagoras hailing + 

Aphrodite’s Daughter, the Bride of the Sun, + 

Sea-girdled Rhodes, to a man fair-fighting + 

And strong giving glory, whose clenched hand smiting + 

By Alpheus and Castaly garlands hath won. + 

And his father I praise, who in justice excelleth, + 

And in Rhodes triple-citied mid warriors dwelleth + 

Nigh Asia’s foreland that seaward doth run. + 