Then a golden bowl their chieftain took in his hands, and high + 

On the stern unto Zeus the Father of the Heavenly Ones did he cry, + 

Unto him whose lance is the lightning; to the rushing feet did he pray + 

Of the waves, and the wild wind-pinions, to speed them on their way; + 

To the nights and the great deep’s highways he prayed, that the days might be + 

Gracious, and kindly the fortune of the home-return oversea. + 

And a voice of thunder propitious out of the welkin crashed, + 

And dazzling gleams of lightning from the rifted cloud-walls flashed. + 

And the heroes breathed more lightly, their hearts with comfort glowed, + 

For they put their trust in the tokens that God from his heaven forth-showed. + 