Then for those great Games he ordained for ever + 

Just judgment and a Five-year Festival + 

By the steep banks of Alpheus’ hallowed river. + 

But of fair trees and tall + 

In Kronian Pelops’ glen, that chosen place, + 

His garden-close, was as a desert bare. + 

Him-seemed it lay unscreened beneath the blaze + 

Of scorching Helios’ arrow-darting rays. + 

Wherefore he yearned to fare + 