{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo45.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo45.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo45.htm","text":"CERALIAN queen, of celebrated name,\n From whom both men, and Gods immortal came;\n Who widely wand'ring once, oppress'd with grief,\n In Eleusina's valley found'st relief,\nDiscovering Proserpine thy daughter pure 5\n In dread Avernus, dismal and obscure;\n A sacred youth while thro' the world you stray\n Bacchus, attending leader of the way;\n The holy marriage of terrestrial Jove\n Relating, while oppress'd with grief you rove; 10\n Come, much invok'd, and to these rites inclin'd,\n Thy mystic suppliant bless, with fav'ring mind.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: XL. To The Ceralian Mother","type":"page"}