One path of endeavour, ye well may deem, + 

Leads not all men unto fame. + 

Ah, steep are poesy’s heights supreme; + 

Yet, Muse, when thou crownest his name + 

With thy guerdon of singing, with shout high-ringing + 

Fearlessly then proclaim + 

Of our champion, that Nature hath dowered him + 

By the favour of Fate the divine, + 

With deftness of hand, with litheness of limb, + 

With valour’s light in his eyne, + 

And that now victorious hath he made glorious + 

Oïlean Aias’ shrine. + 