{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo48.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo48.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo48.htm","text":"CADMEAN Goddess, universal queen,\n Thee, Semele I call, of beauteous mien;\n Deep-bosom'd, lovely flowing locks are thine,\n Mother of Bacchus, joyful and divine,\n The mighty offspring, whom love's thunder bright, 5\n Forc'd immature, and fright'ned into light:\n Born from the deathless counsels, secret, high,\n Of Jove Saturnian, regent of the sky\n Whom Proserpine permits to view the light,\n And visit mortals from the realms of night: 10\n Constant attending on the sacred rites,\n And feast triennial, which thy soul delights;\n When thy son's wond'rous birth mankind relate,\n And secrets deep, and holy celebrate.\nNow I invoke thee, great Cadmean queen, 15\n To bless these rites with countenance serene.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: XLIII: To Semele","type":"page"}