The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

OF ORPHEUS. 97
All-colour'd Seasons, rich increase your care,
Circling, for ever flourishing and fair :
Invested with a veil of shining dew,
A flow'ry veil delightful to the view :
Attending Proserpine, when back from night
The fates and graces lead her up to light ;
When in a band harmonious they advance,
And joyful round her form the solemn dance.
With Ceres triumphing, and Jove divine,
Propitious come, and on our incense shine ;
Give earth a store of blameless fruits to bear,
And make these novel mystics' life your care.
consequence of the worship of these powers being neglected."
The inhabitants of Patros, in Egypt, said to the prophet
Jeremiah, "But we will certainly do whatsoever thing
goeth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the Queen of
Heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we
have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes,
in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem : for
then had we plenty of victuals and were well, and saw 720 evil.
But since we left off to burn incense to the Queen of
Heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, we have
wanted aU things, and have been consumed by the sword
and by famine." Jeremiah, chirp. 44, v. 17, 18.