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Reader | Orphic Hymns, Hymn 53
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| 1 | Primary Great nurse of Bacchus [Bakkhos], to my pray'r incline, Silenus, honor'd by the pow'rs divine |
| 2 | Primary And by mankind at the triennial feast illustrious daemon, reverenc'd as the best: |
| 3 | Primary Holy, august, the source of lawful rites, rejoicing pow'r, whom vigilance delights |
| 4 | Primary With Sylvans dancing ever young and fair, |
| 5 | Primary head of the Bacchic Nymphs [Naiades and Bakkhai], who ivy bear. |
| 6 | Primary With all thy Satyrs on our incense shine, Daemons wild form'd, and bless the rites divine; |
| 7 | Primary Come, rouse to sacred Joy thy pupil kin, and Brumal Nymphs with rites Lenaean bring; |
| 8 | Primary Our orgies shining thro' the night inspire, and bless triumphant pow'r the sacred choir. |