{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo58.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo58.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo58.htm","text":"GREAT nurse of Bacchus, to my pray'r incline.,\n Silenus, honor'd by the pow'rs divine\n And by mankind at the triennial feast\n Illustrious d\u00e6mon, reverenc'd as the best:\n Holy, august, the source of lawful rites, 5\n Rejoicing pow'r, whom vigilance delights\n With Sylvans dancing ever young and fair,\n Head of the Bacchic Nymphs, who ivy bear.\n With all thy Satyrs on our incense shine,\n D\u00e6mons wild form'd, and bless the rites divine; 10\n Come, rouse to sacred Joy thy pupil kin, \u00a0*\n And Brumal Nymphs with rites Len\u00e6an bring;\n Our orgies shining thro' the night inspire,\n And bless triumphant pow'r the sacred choir.\n185:* Because he was the nurse of Bacchus.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: LIII: To Silenus, Satyrus, and the Priestesses of Bacchus","type":"page"}