All past, all present, and all future things:

Sweet, inexhaustible, from every mouth

That voice flows on: the Thunderer’s palace laughs

With scatter’d melody of honied sounds

From the breathed voice of goddesses, and all

The snow-topp’d summits of Olympus ring,

The mansions of immortals. They send forth

Their undecaying voice, and in their songs

Proclaim before all themes the race of gods

From the beginning: the majestic race,