XXIX. To Bacchus

The FUMIGATION from STORAX.

BACCHUS I call, loud-sounding and divine,

Fanatic God, a two-fold shape is thine:

Thy various names and attributes I sing,

O, first-born, thrice begotten, Bacchic king:  4

Rural, ineffable, two-form'd, obscure, 5

Two-horn'd, with ivy crown'd, euion, pure.

Bull-fac'd, and martial, bearer of the vine,

Endu'd with counsel prudent and divine:

Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn,

Of Jove and Proserpine, occultly born. 10

Immortal dæmon, hear my suppliant voice,

Give me in blameless plenty to rejoice;

And listen gracious to my mystic pray'r,

Surrounded with thy choir of nurses fair.

Footnotes

155:4 Ver. 4.] O, first-born. See the notes to Hymn v. to Protogonus.

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