{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo87.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo87.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo87.htm","text":"OCEAN I call, whose nature ever flows,\n From whom at first both Gods and men arose;\n Sire incorruptible, whose waves surround, \u00a03\n And earth's concluding mighty circle bound:\nHence every river, hence the spreading sea, 5\n And earth's pure bubbling fountains spring from thee:\n Hear, mighty fire, for boundless bliss is thine,\n Whose waters purify the pow'rs divine:\n Earth's friendly limit, fountain of the pole,\n Whose waves wide spreading and circumfluent roll.\n Approach benevolent, with placid mind,\n And be for ever to thy mystics kind.\n219:3 LXXXII. Ver. 3.] Whose waves surround, &c. Gesner well observes, that this opinion of the ocean surrounding the earth, is exceeding ancient. see his Pr\u00e6l. i. de Navigationibus vet. \u00a7 I.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: LXXXII: To Ocean","type":"page"}