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Reader | Orphic Hymns, Hymn 69
Orphic Hymns
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| 1 | Primary Hear me, illustrious Furies [Eumenides], mighty nam'd, terrific pow'rs, for prudent counsel fam'd; |
| 2 | Primary Holy and pure, from Jove terrestrial [Zeus Khthonios] born |
| 3 | Primary and Proserpine [Phersephone], whom lovely locks adorn: |
| 4 | Primary Whose piercing sight, with vision unconfin'd, surveys the deeds of all the impious kind: |
| 5 | Primary On Fate attendant, punishing the race (with wrath severe) of deeds unjust and base. |
| 6 | Primary Dark-colour'd queens, whose glittering eyes, are bright with dreadful, radiant, life-destroying, light: |
| 7 | Primary Eternal rulers, terrible and strong, to whom revenge, and tortures dire belong; |
| 8 | Primary Fatal and horrid to the human sight, with snaky tresses wand'ring in the night; |
| 9 | Primary Either approach, and in these rites rejoice, for ye, I call, with holy, suppliant voice. |