🏛️ Hymn 57 - CUPID, OR LOVE [EROS]

I Call great Cupid [Eros], source of sweet delight, holy and pure, and lovely to the sight; Darting, and wing'd, impetuous fierce desire, with Gods and mortals playing, wand'ring fire:

Cautious, and two-fold, keeper of the keys of heav'n and earth, the air, and spreading seas; Of all that Ceres' [Deo's] fertile realms contains, by which th' all-parent Goddess life sustains, Or dismal Tartarus is doom'd to keep, widely extended, or the sounding, deep;

For thee, all Nature's various realms obey, who rul'st alone, with universal sway. Come, blessed pow'r, regard these mystic fires, and far avert, unlawful mad desires.