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Orphic Hymns
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| 1 | Primary Hear, Goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horn'd and wand'ring thro' the gloom of Night. |
| 2 | Primary With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide Night's torch extending, thro' the heav'ns you ride: |
| 3 | Primary Female and Male with borrow'd rays you shine, and now full-orb'd, now tending to decline. |
| 4 | Primary Mother of ages, fruit-producing Moon [Mene], whose amber orb makes Night's reflected noon: |
| 5 | Primary Lover of horses, splendid, queen of Night, all-seeing pow'r bedeck'd with starry light. |
| 6 | Primary Lover of vigilance, the foe of strife, in peace rejoicing, and a prudent life: |
| 7 | Primary Fair lamp of Night, its ornament and friend, who giv'st to Nature's works their destin'd end. |
| 8 | Primary Queen of the stars, all-wife Diana hail! Deck'd with a graceful robe and shining veil; |
| 9 | Primary Come, blessed Goddess, prudent, starry, bright, come moony-lamp with chaste and splendid light, |
| 10 | Primary Shine on these sacred rites with prosp'rous rays, and pleas'd accept thy suppliant's mystic praise. |