Raise high the roofbeams,
carpenters!
Hymenaon, Sing the wedding song!
Up with them!
Hymenaon, Sing the wedding song!
A bridegroom taller than
Ares!
Hymenaon, Sing the wedding song!
Taller than a tall man!
Hymenaon, Sing the wedding song!
Superior as the singer of
Lesbos—
Hymenaon, Sing the wedding song!
—to poets of other
lands.
Hymenaon!
[In case you're feeling like you don't get it: The implication is that the carpenters have to adjust the roof of the house because a certain part of the groom's anatomy is much larger than usual.]
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