{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo74.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo74.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo74.htm","text":"HEAR me, illustrious Furies, mighty nam'd,\n Terrific pow'rs, for prudent counsel fam'd;\n Holy and pure, from Jove terrestrial born\n And Proserpine, whom lovely locks adorn:\n Whose piercing sight, with vision unconfin'd, 5\n Surveys the deeds of all the impious kind:\n On Fate attendant, punishing the race\n (With wrath severe) of deeds unjust and base.\n Dark-colour'd queens, whose glittering eyes, are bright\n With dreadful, radiant, life-destroying, light: 10\n Eternal rulers, terrible and strong,\n To whom revenge, and tortures dire belong;\n Fatal and horrid to the human sight,\n With snaky tresses wand'ring in the night;\n Either approach, and in these rites rejoice, 15\n For ye, I call, with holy, suppliant voice.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: LXIX: To The Furies","type":"page"}