Yet on thee doth a lot of happiness wait; + 

For if upon any man She hath deigned + 

With favour to look, all-ruling Fate, + 

’Tis on him who over a nation hath reigned. + 

Nor Peleus nor Kadmus the godlike attained + 

To a life safeguarded from suffering aye: + 

Yet of all men these, as the old myths say, + 

To the highest happiness rose, for they + 

Heard the gold-tired Muses on Pelion + 

And in Thebes of the seven gates, when the bride + 

Of the one was Harmonia lovely-eyed, + 

And Thetis the Sea-queen Peleus won. + 