Orphic Hymn 4

To Heaven

THE FUMIGATION FROM FRANKINCENSE. Great Heav’n, whose mighty frame no respite knows, Father of all, from whom the world arose; Hear, bounteous parent, source and end of all, For ever whirling round this earthly ball; Abode of Gods, whose guardian pow’r surrounds Th’ eternal world with ever during bounds; Whose ample bosom, and encircling folds The dire necessity of nature holds. Etherial, earthly, whose all-various frame, Azure and full of forms, no power can tame. All-seeing, source of Saturn and of time, For ever blessed, deity sublime, Propitious on a novel mystic shine, And crown his wishes with a life divine.