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The 14th H Y M N of ORPHEUS.

TO JUPITER.

O V E, ever honour'd, everlasting king,

Accept this witness of thy fervant's love,

Due facrifice and praise. Great pow'r, thro' thee

All things, that are, exift: earth, mountains, fea,
And all within the mighty fphere of heav'n.
Saturnian Jove, dread monarch of the sky,
In thunders loud and terrible defcending :

All things producing, as of all the end

So the beginning, author of encrease,

Omnipotent, pow'r creative, purifier,

Whofe arm rolls thunder, and the forky blaze

Of lightning darts! whose glorious word can shake
Earth's deep foundation! Oh accept my prayer,
Multiform deity, and give us health,

Fair peace, and riches with pure virtue crown'd.

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II.

II.

The 15th H Y M N.

To JUNO.

LAC'D in the azure bofom of the sky,

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Airy-form Juno, of Jove's heav'nly bed
Happy partaker, thou with gentle gales
Life-giving, quicken'ft all terrestrial things.
Of clouds, of rain and winds the nourisher
All things producing, for the breath of life

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Without thee nothing knows: fince thou, with all
Thyfelf in wond'rous fort communicating,

Art mix'd with all. Thou, fov'reign, too obtain'st

An univerfal empire, borne along

In airy torrents with refounding murmurs.

Goddess, whofe names are num'rous, all-ador'd,

Propitious come with lovely fmiling face.

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III.

The 33d H YM N.

To APOLLO.

LEST Pæan come, Lycorian PHOEBUS, foe

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Of daring Tityus, honour'd Memphian God,
Giver of health, of riches: golden-lyr'd;
From thee the feed, the field its rich encrease

Receives prolific, Grunian, Smynthian, bane
Of deadly Python, hallow'd Delphian prophet,
Rural, light-bearer, lovely noble youth :
Head of the Muses, leader of the choir,

Far-darting God, with bow and quiver arm'd,

Bacchian and twofold, whofe dread pow'r extends
Afar, diffused wide; whofe course oblique

Is fhap'd; pure; Delian king, whose lucid eye
Light-giving all things views: whose locks are gold,
Who oracles and words of omen good

Revealeft. Hear me with benignant mind

Entreating for the people: for thou view'st

This boundless æther all, this plenteous earth,

And ev❜n beneath thro' the dark womb of things,

In night's ftill, gloomy regions, and beyond

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Th'

Th' impenetrable darkness fet with ftars.

The fix'd foundations thou haft lay'd beneath,
And the whole world's extremities are thine.
Thyself for ever flourishing, to thee

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Of things the rise and the decay belong,

The end and the beginning. With thy harp

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Of various modulation thou the whole

Of nature harmonifeft: the lowest string

Now sweetly touching, now in Dorian measure
Ascending to the highest : nature's tribes,

No less than nature, to thy harmony

Owe the variety and pleafing change

Of seasons; mix'd by thee in equal parts,
Summer and winter; on the highest string
This modulated, that the lowest claims,
While to a Dorian measure the sweet prime

Of lovely fpring advances: mortals hence

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Have call'd thee royal Pan, two-horned God,
The vivifying gales, thro' fyrinx fam'd
Emitting: wherefore thou the marking seal

Of the whole world poffeffeft.

And with propitious voice thy

Ver. 20.] Y'aspooμator Opp. This feems to countenance their opinions, who hold that the D d 2

Hear bleft pow'r, mystics save.

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fyftem is bounded by a thick and outer darkness, where are the fixt stars.

Ver. 22.] See Psalm xix. 5, 6.

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IV.

The 35th H Y M N.

To DIANA.

EAR me, oh queen, Jove's daughter, various-nam'd,
Bacchian and Titan, noble huntress queen,

Shining on all, torch-bearer, bright Dictynna,
O'er births prefiding, and thy ready aid
To all imparting in the pangs of birth,
Tho' unexperienc'd of those pangs thyfelf;
Diffolver of the zone, foother of care,
Fierce huntress in the course unweary'd still,
Delighting in the bow and sylvan sports,
Trav❜ling by night, aufpicious and renown'd,
Of manly form, erect and tow'ring, swift
T'affift, pure expiating pow'r, great nurse
Of mortals, earthly and celestial, blest
And rich, the woody hills poffeffing, bane
Of beasts, pursuer of the nimble stag.

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