🏛️ Hymn 67 - HEALTH [HYGEIA]

O Much-desir'd, prolific, gen'ral queen, hear me, life-bearing, Health [Hygeia], of beauteous mien, Mother of all; by thee diseases dire, of bliss destructive, from our life retire;

And ev'ry house is flourishing and fair, if with rejoicing aspect thou art there: Each dædal art, thy vig'rous force inspires, and all the world thy helping hand desires;

Pluto life's bane alone resists thy will, and ever hates thy all-preserving skill. O fertile queen, from thee forever flows to mortal life from agony repose;

And men without thy all-sustaining ease, find nothing useful, nothing form'd to please; Without thy aid, not Plutus' [Aides'] self can thrive, nor man to much afflicted age arrive;

For thou alone of countenance serene, dost govern all things, universal queen. Assist thy mystics with propitious mind, and far avert disease of ev'ry kind.