{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo41.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo41.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo41.htm","text":"O Mighty Titans, who from heav'n and earth\n Derive your noble and illustrious birth,\n Our fathers fires, in Tartarus profound\n Who dwell, deep merg'd beneath the solid ground:\n Fountains and principles, from whom began 5\n Th' afflicted, miserable, race of man:\n Who not alone in earth's retreats abide,\n But in the ocean and the air reside;\n Since ev'ry species from your nature flows,\n Which all prolific, nothing barren knows: 10\n Avert your rage, if from th' infernal seats\n One of your tribe should visit our retreats.\n167:* See note to Hymn xxxi. to Pallas.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: XXXVI: To The Titans","type":"page"}