XXXVI. To the Titans

The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE.

O Mighty Titans, who from heav'n and earth

Derive your noble and illustrious birth,

Our fathers fires, in Tartarus profound

Who dwell, deep merg'd beneath the solid ground:

Fountains and principles, from whom began 5

Th' afflicted, miserable, race of man:

Who not alone in earth's retreats abide,

But in the ocean and the air reside;

Since ev'ry species from your nature flows,

Which all prolific, nothing barren knows: 10

Avert your rage, if from th' infernal seats

One of your tribe should visit our retreats.

Footnotes

167:* See note to Hymn xxxi. to Pallas.

XXXVII.