Orphic Hymn 75

To Palæmon

THE FUMIGATION FROM MANNA. O nurs’d with Dionysius, doom’d to keep Thy dwelling in the widely spreading deep; With joyful aspect to my pray’r incline, Propitious come, and bless the rites divine; Thy mystics thro’ the earth and sea attend, And from old Ocean’s stormy waves defend: For ships their safety ever owe to thee, Who wand’rest with them thro’ the raging sea. Come, guardian pow’r, whom mortal tribes desire, And far avert the deep’s destructive ire.