{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo47.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo47.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo47.htm","text":"DAUGHTERS of Jove and Themis, seasons bright,\n Justice, and blessed peace, and lawful right,\n Vernal and grassy, vivid, holy pow'rs,\n Whose balmy breath exhales in lovely flow'rs\n All-colour'd seasons, rich increase your care, 5\n Circling, for ever flourishing and fair:\n Invested with a veil of shining dew,\n A flow'ry veil delightful to the view:\nAttending Proserpine, when back from night,\n The Fates and Graces lead her up to light; 10\n When in a band-harmonious they advance,\n And joyful round her, form the solemn dance:\n With Ceres triumphing, and Jove divine;\n Propitious come, and on our incense shine;\n Give earth a blameless store of fruits to bear, 15\n And make a novel mystic's life your care.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: XLII: To the Seasons","type":"page"}