🏛️ Hymn 24 - PROTEUS

Proteus I call, whom Fate decrees, to keep the keys which lock the chambers of the deep; First-born, by whose illustrious pow'r alone all Nature's principles are clearly shewn:

Matter to change with various forms is thine, matter unform'd, capacious, and divine. All-honor'd, prudent, whose sagacious mind knows all that was, and is, of ev'ry kind, With all that shall be in succeeding time;

so vast thy wisdom, wond'rous, and sublime: For all things Nature first to thee consign'd, and in thy essence omniform confin'd.

Come, blessed father, to our rites attend, and grant our happy lives a prosp'rous end.