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Reader | Orphic Hymns, Hymn 77
Orphic Hymns
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| 1 | Primary Hear me, O Goddess! whose emerging ray leads on the broad refulgence of the day; |
| 2 | Primary Blushing Aurora [Eos], whose celestial light beams on the world with red'ning splendours bright: |
| 3 | Primary Angel of Titan, whom with constant round, thy orient beams recall from night profound: |
| 4 | Primary Labour of ev'ry kind to lead is thine, of mortal life the minister divine. |
| 5 | Primary Mankind in thee eternally delight, and none presumes to shun thy beauteous sight. |
| 6 | Primary Soon as thy splendours break the bands of rest, and eyes unclose with pleasing sleep oppress'd; |
| 7 | Primary Men, reptiles, birds, and beasts, with gen'ral voice, and all the nations of the deep, rejoice; |
| 8 | Primary For all the culture of our life is thine. Come, blessed pow'r! and to these rites incline: |
| 9 | Primary Thy holy light increase, and unconfin'd diffuse its radiance on thy mystic's mind. |