The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

OF ORPHEUS,
LVI.
TO ADONIS.
THE FUMIGATION FROhZ AROMATICS.
MUCH nam'd, and best of daemons, hear my pray'r,
The desert loving, deck'd with tender hair;
Joy to diffuse, by all desir'd, is thine,
Much form'd, Eubulus, aliment divine.
Female and male, all-charming to the sight,
Adonis, ever flourishing and bright ;
At stated periods doom'd to set and rise
With splendid lamp, the glory of the skies?
Two horn'd and lovely, reverenc'd with tears,
Of splendid form, adorn'd with copious hairs.
Rejoicing in the chase, all-graceful pow'r,
Sweet plant of Venus, Love's delightful Aow'r :
Descended from the secret bed divine
Of Pluto's queen, the fair-hair'd Proserpine.
'Tis thine to sink in Tartarus profound,
And shine again thro' heav'ns illustrious round ;
Come, timely pow'r, with providential care,
And to thy mystics earth's productio~zs bear. 94
g3 Proclus, in his very elegant hymn to the Sun, cele-
brates hirn as frequently called Adonis ; and this perfectly
agrees with what is said in this and the preceding verse,
and with many other parts of the hymn.
9' '$ Adonis (says Harmeas, in his Scholia on the P'l~zdrus