Orphic Hymn 81

To Zephyrus

THE FUMIGATION FROM FRANKINCENSE. Sea-born, aerial, blowing from the west, Sweet gales, who give to weary’d labour rest. Vemal and grassy, and of murm’ring sound, To ships delightful through the sea profound; For these, impell’d by you with gentle force, Pursue with prosp’rous fate their destin’d course. With blameless gales regard my suppliant pray’r, Zephyrs unseen, light-wing’d, and form’d from air.