{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo34.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo34.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo34.htm","text":"BACCHUS I call, loud-sounding and divine,\n Fanatic God, a two-fold shape is thine:\n Thy various names and attributes I sing,\n O, first-born, thrice begotten, Bacchic king: \u00a04\n Rural, ineffable, two-form'd, obscure, 5\n Two-horn'd, with ivy crown'd, euion, pure.\n Bull-fac'd, and martial, bearer of the vine,\n Endu'd with counsel prudent and divine:\n Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn,\n Of Jove and Proserpine, occultly born. 10\nImmortal d\u00e6mon, hear my suppliant voice,\n Give me in blameless plenty to rejoice;\n And listen gracious to my mystic pray'r,\n Surrounded with thy choir of nurses fair.\n155:4 Ver. 4.] O, first-born. See the notes to Hymn v. to Protogonus.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: XXIX: To Bacchus","type":"page"}