{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo72.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo72.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo72.htm","text":"O Much-desir'd, prolific, gen'ral queen,\n Hear me, life-bearing, Health, of beauteous mien,\n Mother of all; by thee diseases dire,\n Of bliss destructive, from our life retire;\n And ev'ry house is flourishing and fair, 5\n If with rejoicing aspect thou art there:\n Each d\u00e6dal art, thy vig'rous force inspires,\n And all the world thy helping hand desires;\n Pluto life's bane alone resists thy will,\n And ever hates thy all-preserving skill. 10\n O fertile queen, from thee forever flows\n To mortal life from agony repose;\n And men without thy all-sustaining ease,\n Find nothing useful, nothing form'd to please;\n Without thy aid, not Plutus' self can thrive, 15\n Nor man to much afflicted age arrive;\n For thou alone of countenance serene,\n Dost govern all things, universal queen.\n Assist thy mystics with propitious mind,\n And far avert disease of ev'ry kind.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: LXVII: To Health","type":"page"}