Shall for the triumph of thy ring-craft grace + 

With splendour thy bright olive-wreath, + 

And honour therewithal the Lokrian race + 

Fanned by the West-wind’s breath. + 

O Song-queens, hither speed your festal feet! + 

I pledge me in sincerity + 

No guest-repelling folk ye there shall meet, + 

Nor in fair chivalry + 

Unschooled: nay, over wisdom’s heights they range, + 

They with the spear were valiant ever. + 

That these be like their sires is nowise strange: + 

Red fox and thunder-throated lion change + 

Their inborn nature never. + 