{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo17.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo17.htm","text":"ETHERIAL father, mighty Titan, hear, \u00a01\n Great fire of Gods and men, whom all revere:\n Endu'd with various council, pure and strong,\n To whom perfection and decrease belong.\n Consum'd by thee all forms that hourly die, 5\n By thee restor'd, their former place supply;\n The world immense in everlasting chains,\n Strong and ineffable thy pow'r contains\n Father of vast eternity, divine,\n O mighty Saturn, various speech is thine: 10\n Blossom of earth and of the starry skies,\n Husband of Rhea, and Prometheus wife.\nObstetric Nature, venerable root,\n From which the various forms of being shoot;\n No parts peculiar can thy pow'r enclose, 15\n Diffus'd thro' all, from which the world arose,\n O, best of beings, of a subtle mind,\n Propitious hear to holy pray'rs inclin'd;\n The sacred rites benevolent attend,\n And grant a blameless life, a blessed end.\n136:1 Ver. 1.] Mighty Titan. See the notes to the preceding hymn.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: XII: To Saturn","type":"page"}