{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo60.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo60.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo60.htm","text":"MUCH-nam'd, and best of d\u00e6mons, hear my pray'r,\n The desart-loving, deck'd with tender hair;\n Joy to diffuse, by all desir'd is thine,\n Much form'd, Eubulus; aliment divine\nFemale and Male, all charming to the sight, 5\n Adonis ever flourishing and bright;\n At stated periods doom'd to set and rise,\n With splendid lamp, the glory of the skies. \u00a08\n Two-horn'd and lovely, reverenc'd with tears,\n Of beauteous form, adorn'd with copious hairs. 10\n Rejoicing in the chace, all-graceful pow'r,\n Sweet plant of Venus, Love's delightful flow'r:\n Descended from the secret bed divine,\n Of lovely-hair'd, infernal Proserpine.\n 'Tis thine to fink in Tartarus profound, 15\n And shine again thro' heav'ns illustrious round,\n With beauteous temp'ral orb restor'd to sight;\n Come, with earth's fruits, and in these flames delight.\n188:8 Ver. 8.] With splendid lamp, &c. Proclus, in his elegant Hymn to the Sun, celebrates him as frequently called Adonis; and this perfectly agrees with the present epithet, and with many others in the Hymn.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: LV: To Adonis","type":"page"}