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Orphic Hymns

Hymn 69, Line 6 by Thomas Taylor (English)

Dark-colour'd queens, whose glittering eyes, are bright with dreadful, radiant, life-destroying, light:

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Archival source: https://archive.org/details/b28775430. Extracted from Theoi HTML for hymn 69; bracketed Greek names follow Theoi's public-domain presentation.