Orphic Hymn 58

To Love

THE FUMIGATION FROM AROMATICS. I call, great Love, the source of sweet delight, Holy and pure, and charming to the sight; Darting, and wing’d, impetuous fierce desire, With Gods and mortals playing, wand’ring fire: Agile and twofold, keeper of the keys Of heav’n and earth, the air, and spreading seas; Of all that Ceres’ fertile realms contains, By which th’ all parent Goddess life sustains, Or dismal Tartarus is doom’d to keep, Widely extended, or the sounding deep; For thee all Nature’s various realms obey, Who rul’st alone, with universal sway. Come, blessed pow’r, regard these mystic fires, And far avert unlawful mad desires.