Orphic Hymn 50

To Lysius Lenæus

Hear me, Jove’s son, blest Bacchus, God of wine, Born of two mothers, honour’d and divine; Lysian Euion Bacchus, various-nam’d, Of Gods the offspring, secret, holy, fam’d. Fertile and nourishing, whose liberal care Augments the fruit that banishes despair. Sounding, magnanimous, Lenæan pow’r, O various-form’d, medicinal, holy flow’r: Mortals in thee repose from labour find, Delightful charm, desir’d by all mankind. Fair-hair’d Euion, Bromian, joyful God, Lysian, insanely raging with the leafy rod. To these our rites, benignant pow’r, incline, When fav’ring men, or when on Gods you shine; Be present to thy mystics‘ suppliant pray’r, Rejoicing come, and fruits abundant bear.