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Reader | Orphic Hymns, Hymn 16
Orphic Hymns
Orphic tradition
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| Line Ref | Thomas Taylor | English |
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| 1 | Primary Hear, Neptune [Poseidon], ruler of the sea profound, whose liquid grasp begirts the solid ground; |
| 2 | Primary Who, at the bottom of the stormy main, dark and deep-bosom'd, hold'st thy wat'ry reign; |
| 3 | Primary Thy awful hand the brazen trident bears, and ocean's utmost bound, thy will reveres: |
| 4 | Primary Thee I invoke, whose steeds the foam divide, from whose dark locks the briny waters glide; |
| 5 | Primary Whose voice loud founding thro' the roaring deep, drives all its billows, in a raging heap; |
| 6 | Primary When fiercely riding thro' the boiling sea, thy hoarse command the trembling waves obey. |
| 7 | Primary Earth shaking, dark-hair'd God, the liquid plains (the third division) Fate to thee ordains, |
| 8 | Primary 'Tis thine, caerulian daemon, to survey well pleas'd the monsters of the ocean play, |
| 9 | Primary Confirm earth's basis, and with prosp'rous gales waft ships along, and swell the spacious sails; |
| 10 | Primary Add gentle Peace, and fair-hair'd Health beside, and pour abundance in a blameless tide. |