For who but Jove prevailed, with power divine,

Harsh Hera’s wrath to tame?

Such the great work of Jove; and we are such,

O Jove, our race who claim

From him whose name declares the virtue of thy touch.

STROPHE V.

For whom more justly shall my hymn be chaunted

Than thee, above all gods that be, high-vaunted,

Root of my race, great Jove;

Prime moulder from whose plastic-touching hand