O Camarina, bright daughter of Ocean, with glad spirit greet + 

Him who the crown of Olympian achievement and glory most sweet + 

Brings for his gifts to thee won by his car-team’s unwearying feet, + 

Psaumis! O nurse of a nation, to magnify thee hath he raised + 

Altars, twin altars twice three, where at feasts of the Blessèd Ones blazed + 

Steers that were slain; and for five days the goals of the race-course they grazed, + 

Chariots of horses and mules, and swift coursers. To thee consecrated + 

All his proud glory was, and to his sire and the burg new-created. + 

Back from Oenomaus’ home and from Pelops’ dear dwelling he brings + 

Songs unto Pallas Protectress of Cities; her precinct he sings, + 

Sings of thy river Oanis, the mere that thine highland enrings. + 

Hallowèd Hipparis sings he that quencheth thy citizens’ thirst, + 

Floating down fast for rebuilding thee trees in his hill-cradle nursed, + 

So that from darkness the light of new life on thy commonwealth burst. + 

Labour and cost for all noble achievement in one must be blended: + 

Veiled is the issue in risk; but success is for wisdom commended. + 

Cloud-hidden Saviour, O Zeus who art throned on the Kronian hill-crest, + 

Honourest Alpheus’ flood and the cave under Ida’s green breast, + 

Suppliant I come to thee, voicing through Lydian flutes my request: + 

O let this city with chivalry’s glory be aye magnified! + 

Thou too, Olympian victor, whose god-nurtured steeds are thy pride, + 

Unto a peaceful old age mayst thou win with thy sons at thy side. + 

If as a well-watered garden thy bliss be, and if thou desire not + 

More, with thy wealth and thine honours content⁠—unto godhead aspire not! + 