{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo83.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo83.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo83.htm","text":"ILLUSTRIOUS Themis, of celestial birth,\n Thee I invoke, young blossom of the earth; \u00a02\n Beauteous-eyed virgin; first from thee alone,\n Prophetic oracles to men were known,\n Giv'n from the deep recesses of the fane 5\n In sacred Pytho, where renown'd you reign;\n From thee, Apollo's oracles arose,\n And from thy pow'r his inspiration flows.\n Honour'd by all, of form divinely bright,\n Majestic virgin, wand'ring in the night: 10\n Mankind from thee first learnt initial rites,\n And Bacchus' nightly choirs thy soul delights;\n For holy honours to disclose is thine,\n With all the culture of the pow'rs divine.\n Be present, Goddess, to my pray'r inclin'd,\n And bless the mystic rites with fav'ring mind.\n217:2 Ver. 2.] Young blossom of the earth. See the note to Hymn xi, to Hercules.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: LXXVIII: To Themis","type":"page"}