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Orphic Hymns
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| 1 | Primary Call Melinoe, saffron-veil'd, terrene, who from infernal Pluto's sacred queen [Phersephone], |
| 2 | Primary Mixt with Saturnian Jupiter [Kronion Zeus], arose, near where Cocytus' mournful river flows; |
| 3 | Primary When under Pluto's [Plouton's] semblance, |
| 4 | Primary Jove [Zeus] divine deceiv'd with guileful arts dark Proserpine [Phersephone]. |
| 5 | Primary Hence, partly black thy limbs and partly white, from Pluto [Plouton] dark, from Jove [Zeus] etherial, bright |
| 6 | Primary Thy colour'd members, men by night inspire when seen in specter'd forms with terrors dire; |
| 7 | Primary Now darkly visible, involv'd in night, perspicuous now they meet the fearful fight. |
| 8 | Primary Terrestrial queen expel wherever found the soul's mad fears to earth's remotest bound; |
| 9 | Primary With holy aspect on our incense shrine, and bless thy mystics, and the rites divine. |