With wide flood rolling on, in full and abounding richness.

Semi-Chor. B. And Artemis the chaste,

May she behold our band

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With pity; ne'er be marriage rites enforcèd

On us by Kythereia: those who hate us,

Let that ill prize be theirs.

Strophe II

Semi-Chor. A. Not that our kindly strain does slight to Kypris immortal;

For she, together with Hera, as nearest to Zeus is mighty,