Orphic Hymn 62

To Justice

THE FUMIGATION FROM FRANKINCENSE, The piercing eye of Justice bright I sing, Plac’d by the sacred throne of Jove the king Perceiving thence, with vision unconfin’d, The life and conduct of the human kind. To thee revenge and punishment belong, Chastising ev’ry deed unjust and wrong Whose pow’r alone dissimilars can join, And from th’ equality of truth combine: For all the ill persuasion can inspire, When urging bad designs with counsel dire, ‘Tis thine alone to punish; with the race Of lawless passions, and incentives base; For thou art ever to the good inclin’d, And hostile to the men of evil mind. Come, all propitious, and thy suppliant hear, Till fates’ predestin’d fatal hour draws near.