🏛️ Hymn 75 - THE MUSES

Daughters of Jove [Zeus and Mnemosyne], dire-sounding and divine, renown'd Pierian, sweetly speaking Nine; To those whose breasts your sacred furies fire much-form'd, the objects of supreme desire:

Sources of blameless virtue to mankind, who form to excellence the youthful mind; Who nurse the soul, and give her to descry the paths of right with Reason's steady eye.

Commanding queens who lead to sacred light the intellect refin'd from Error's night; And to mankind each holy rite disclose, for mystic knowledge from your nature flows.

Clio, and Erato, who charms the sight, with thee Euterpe minist'ring delight: Thalia flourishing, Polymina fam'd, Melpomene from skill in music nam'd:

Terpischore, Urania heav'nly bright, with thee who gav'st me to behold the light. Come, venerable, various, pow'rs divine, with fav'ring aspect on your mystics shine;

Bring glorious, ardent, lovely, fam'd desire, and warm my bosom with your sacred fire.