On these Argive halls!

Ne’er may Mars, the wanton daring,

With his shrill trump, joyless-blaring,

Wrap, in wild flames, fiercely flaring,

These Pelasgian walls!

Go! thy gory harvest reaping

Far from us: thy bloody weeping

Distant tribes may know.

Bless, O Jove, this Argive nation!

They have heard the supplication