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Reader | Orphic Hymns, Hymn 82
Orphic Hymns
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| 1 | Primary Ocean I call, whose nature ever flows, from whom at first both Gods and men arose; |
| 2 | Primary Sire incorruptible, whose waves surround, and earth's concluding mighty circle bound: |
| 3 | Primary Hence every river, hence the spreading sea, and earth's pure bubbling fountains spring from thee: |
| 4 | Primary Hear, mighty fire, for boundless bliss is thine, whose waters purify the pow'rs divine: |
| 5 | Primary Earth's friendly limit, fountain of the pole, whose waves wide spreading and circumfluent roll. |
| 6 | Primary Approach benevolent, with placid mind, and be for ever to thy mystics kind. |