Ay he and his staunch wife. No fairer bride

E'er clasped her lord in royal palaces:

And her heart's love her brother-husband won.

In such blest union joined the immortal pair

Whom queenly Rhea bore, and heaven obeys:

One couch the maiden of the rainbow decks

With myrrh-dipt hands for Hera and for Zeus.

Now farewell, prince! I rank thee aye with gods:

And read this lesson to the afterdays,

Mayhap they'll prize it: 'Honour is of Zeus.'