Poseidon of the golden trident

Poseidon of the golden trident,

lord of the sea, mightiest of gods,

earth-encircling,

dweller in the teeming brine,

around thee fin-borne creatures gambol in a circle,

the music-loving dolphins,

leaping nimbly up with light-darting feet,

snub-nosed and with bristling manes,

whelps swift of speed,

the sea-brood of the divine Nereid maids

whom Amphitrite bore: --

ye who, when treacherous men cast me from the hollow,

sea-voyaging ship into the dark billows of the deep,

brought me, adrift on the Sicilian waters,

to the land of Pelops and the headland of Taenarus,

carrying me on your curved backs,

cleaving the furrow of the ocean plain,

a path untrodden.