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The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

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OF ORPHEUS,<br />

LX.<br />

TO THE GRACES 97.<br />

THE FUMIGATION FROM STORAX.<br />

HEAR me, illustrious Graces, mighty nam'd,<br />

From Jove descended, and Eunomia fam'd,<br />

Thalia and Aglaia fair and bright,<br />

And blest Euphrosyne, whom joys delight :<br />

Mothers <strong>of</strong> mirth; all lovely to the view,<br />

Pleasure abundant, pure, belongs to you :<br />

Various, for ever flourishing and fair,<br />

Desir'd by mortals, much invok'd in pray'r ;<br />

Circling, dark-ey'd, delightful to mankind,<br />

Come, and your mystics' bless with bounteow mind.<br />

97 In the same manner as Bacchus subsists in Jupiter,<br />

and Esculapius in Apollo, so the Graces subsist in Venus,<br />

as we are informed by the philosopher Sallust, in his golden<br />

Treatise on the Gods and the Worlcl.

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