Opening Hymns — Proclus in Plato Scroll…
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Proclus · Thomas Taylor
ΠΡΟΚΛΟΥ ΛΥΚΙΟΥ ΥΜΝΟΙ. Hear golden Titan! king of mental fire, Ruler of light; to thee supreme belongs The splendid key of life’s prolific fount; And from on high thou pour’st harmonic streams In rich abundance into matter’s worlds. 5 Hear! for high raised above th’ ætherial plains, And in the world’s bright middle orb thou reign’st, Whilst all things by thy sov’reign power are filled With mind-exciting, providential care. The starry fires surround thy vig’rous fire, 10 And ever in unweary’d, ceaseless dance, O’er earth wide-bosom’d, vivid dew diffuse. By thy perpetual and repeated course The hours and seasons in succession rise; And hostile elements their conflicts cease, 15 Soon as they view thy awful beams, great king, From deity ineffable and secret born. The steady Parcæ, at thy high command, The fatal thread of mortal life roll back; For wide-extended, sov’reign sway is …
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