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Reader | Orphic Hymns, Hymn 61
Orphic Hymns
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| 1 | Primary The piercing eye of Justice [Dike] bright, I sing, plac'd by the throne of heav'n's almighty king [Zeus], |
| 2 | Primary Perceiving thence, with vision unconfin'd, the life and conduct of the human kind |
| 3 | Primary To thee, revenge and punishment belong, chastising ev'ry deed, unjust and wrong; |
| 4 | Primary Whose pow'r alone, dissimilars can join, and from th' equality of truth combine: |
| 5 | Primary For all the ill, persuasion can inspire, when urging bad designs, with counsel dire, |
| 6 | Primary 'Tis thine alone to punish; with the race of lawless passions, and incentives base; |
| 7 | Primary For thou art ever to the good inclin'd, and hostile to the men of evil mind. |
| 8 | Primary Come, all-propitious, and thy suppliant hear, when Fate's predestin'd, final hour draws near. |