Of many broken hopes, on one hope chancing;

For never prayed I, in this earth Argeian

Dying, to share my part in tomb the dearest.

Now, hail thou earth, and hail thou also, sunlight,

And Zeus, the country's lord, and king the Puthian

From bow no longer urging at us arrows!

Enough, beside Skamandros, cam'st thou adverse:

Now, contrary, be saviour thou and healer,

O king Apollon! And gods conquest-granting,

All—I invoke too, and my tutelary