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Reader | Orphic Hymns, Hymn 24
Orphic Hymns
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| 1 | Primary Proteus I call, whom Fate decrees, to keep the keys which lock the chambers of the deep; |
| 2 | Primary First-born, by whose illustrious pow'r alone all Nature's principles are clearly shewn: |
| 3 | Primary Matter to change with various forms is thine, matter unform'd, capacious, and divine. |
| 4 | Primary All-honor'd, prudent, whose sagacious mind knows all that was, and is, of ev'ry kind, |
| 5 | Primary With all that shall be in succeeding time; so vast thy wisdom, wond'rous, and sublime: |
| 6 | Primary For all things Nature first to thee consign'd, and in thy essence omniform confin'd. |
| 7 | Primary Come, blessed father, to our rites attend, and grant our happy lives a prosp'rous end. |