{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo54.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo54.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo54.htm","text":"Hear me, Jove's son, blest Bacchus, God of wine,\n Born of two mothers, honor'd and divine;\n Lysian, Euion \u00a0* Bacchus, various-nam'd,\n Of Gods the offspring secret, holy, fam'd:\n Fertile and nourishing whose liberal care 5\n Earth's fruits increases, flourishing and fair;\n Sounding, magnanimous, Len\u00e6an pow'r\n O various form'd, medic'nal, holy flow'r:\n Mortals in thee, repose from labour find,\n Delightful charm, desir'd by all mankind: 10\n Fair-hair'd Euion, Bromian, joyful God,\n Lysian, invested with the leafy rod.\n To these our rites, benignant pow'r incline,\n When fav'ring men, or when on Gods you shine;\n Be present to thy mystic's suppliant pray'r, 15\n Rejoicing come, and fruits abundant bear.\n181:* Euion ingeminat, reparabilis assonat Echo. Persius.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: XLIX: To Lysius Len\u00e6us","type":"page"}