Olympia Ii, 109-150

Equally by night always, And by day, having the sun, the good Lead a life without labor, not disturbing the earth With violent hands, nor the sea water, For a scanty living; but honored By the gods, who take pleasure in fidelity to oaths, They spend a tearless existence; While the others suffer unsightly pain. But as many as endured threefold Probation, keeping the mind from all Injustice, going the way of Zeus to Kronos' tower, Where the ocean breezes blow around The island of the blessed; and flowers of gold shine, Some on the land from dazzling trees, And the water nourishes others; With garlands of these they crown their hands and hair, According to the just decrees of Rhadamanthus, Whom Father Kronos, the husband of Rhea, Having the highest throne of all, has ready by himself as his assistant judge. Peleus and Kadmus are regarded among these; And his mother brought Achilles, when she had Persuaded the heart of Zeus with prayers, Who overthrew Hector, Troy's Unconquered, unshaken column, and gave Cycnus To death, and Morning's Æthiop son.