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Reader | Orphic Hymns, Hymn 68
Orphic Hymns
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| 1 | Primary Vociferous Bacchanalian Furies [Erinyes], hear! Ye, I invoke, dread pow'rs, whom all revere; |
| 2 | Primary Nightly, profound, in secret who retire, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megara dire: |
| 3 | Primary Deep in a cavern merg'd, involv'd in night, near where Styx flows impervious to the sight; |
| 4 | Primary Ever attendant on mysterious rites, furious and fierce, whom Fate's dread law delights; |
| 5 | Primary Revenge and sorrows dire to you belong, hid in a savage veil, severe and strong, |
| 6 | Primary Terrific virgins, who forever dwell endu'd with various forms, in deepest hell; |
| 7 | Primary Aerial, and unseen by human kind, and swiftly coursing, rapid as the mind. |
| 8 | Primary In vain the Sun with wing'd refulgence bright, in vain the Moon, far darting milder light, |
| 9 | Primary Wisdom and Virtue may attempt in vain; and pleasing, Art, our transport to obtain |
| 10 | Primary Unless with these you readily conspire, and far avert your all-destructive ire. |
| 11 | Primary The boundless tribes of mortals you descry, and justly rule with Right's [Dike's] impartial eye. |
| 12 | Primary Come, snaky-hair'd, Fates [Moirai] many-form'd, divine, suppress your rage, and to our rites incline. |