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Orphic Hymns
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| 1 | Primary Hear me, Jove's [Zeus'] daughter, celebrated queen, Bacchian [Bromia] and Titan, of a noble mien: |
| 2 | Primary In darts rejoicing and on all to shine, torch-bearing Goddess, Dictynna divine; |
| 3 | Primary O'er births presiding, and thyself a maid, to labour-pangs imparting ready aid: |
| 4 | Primary Dissolver of the zone and wrinkl'd care, fierce huntress, glorying in the Sylvan war: |
| 5 | Primary Swift in the course, in dreadful arrows skill'd, wandering by night, rejoicing in the field: |
| 6 | Primary Of manly form, erect, of bounteous mind, illustrious daemon, nurse of human kind: |
| 7 | Primary Immortal, earthly, bane of monsters fell, 'tis thine; blest maid, on woody hills to dwell: |
| 8 | Primary Foe of the stag, whom woods and dogs delight, in endless youth who flourish fair and bright. |
| 9 | Primary O, universal queen, august, divine, a various form, Cydonian pow'r, is thine: |
| 10 | Primary Dread guardian Goddess, with benignant mind auspicious, come to mystic rites inclin'd |
| 11 | Primary Give earth a store of beauteous fruits to bear, send gentle Peace, and Health with lovely hair, |
| 12 | Primary And to the mountains drive Disease and Care. |