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Reader | Orphic Hymns, Hymn 2
Orphic Hymns
Orphic tradition
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| 1 | Primary Night [Nyx], parent goddess, source of sweet repose, from whom at first both Gods and men arose, |
| 2 | Primary Hear, blessed Venus [Kypris], deck'd with starry light, in sleep's deep silence dwelling Ebon night! |
| 3 | Primary Dreams and soft case attend thy dusky train, pleas'd with the length'ned gloom and feaftful strain. |
| 4 | Primary Dissolving anxious care, the friend of Mirth, with darkling coursers riding round the earth. |
| 5 | Primary Goddess of phantoms and of shadowy play, whose drowsy pow'r divides the nat'ral day: |
| 6 | Primary By Fate's decree you constant send the light to deepest hell, remote from mortal sight |
| 7 | Primary For dire Necessity which nought withstands, invests the world with adamantine bands. |
| 8 | Primary Be present, Goddess, to thy suppliant's pray'r, desir'd by all, whom all alike revere, |
| 9 | Primary Blessed, benevolent, with friendly aid dispell the fears of Twilight's dreadful shade. |