Hymn 12 — To Hera

I will sing of golden-throned Hera whom Rhea bare. Queen of the immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty: she is the sister and the wife of loud-thundering Zeus — the glorious one whom all the blessed throughout high Olympus reverence and honor even as Zeus who delights in thunder. Hail, queen of the gods, wide-ruling — and with your king Zeus you preserve the race of men from generation to generation.