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The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

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OF' ORPHEUS.<br />

LXXX.<br />

TO BOREAS Il2.<br />

THE FUMIGATION FROM FRANKINCENSE.<br />

BOREAS, whose wintry blasts, terrific, tear<br />

<strong>The</strong> bosom <strong>of</strong> the deep surrounding air ;<br />

Cold icy pow'r, approach, and fav'ring blow,<br />

And Thrace awhile desert, expos'd to snow :<br />

<strong>The</strong> air's all-misty dark'ning state dissolve,<br />

With pregnant clouds whose frames in show'rs re-<br />

solve.<br />

Serenely temper all within the sky,<br />

And wipe from moisture Ether's splendid eye.<br />

" <strong>Orpheus</strong> (says Simplicius, in Aristot. de AnimB,<br />

lib. i.) appears to have called the aptitude <strong>of</strong> bodies, with<br />

respect to life, ~espiration ; but the total and univemal causes<br />

winds, without which partial causes cannot make bodies<br />

properly adapted animated."

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