🏛️ Hymn 84 - SLEEP [HYPNOS]

Sleep [Hypnos], king of Gods, and men of mortal birth, sov'reign of all sustain'd by mother Earth; For thy dominion is supreme alone, o'er all extended, and by all things known.

'Tis thine all bodies with benignant mind in other bands than those of brass to bind: Tamer of cares, to weary toil repose, from whom sweet solace in affliction flows.

Thy pleasing, gentle chains preserve the soul, and e'en the dreadful cares of death controul; For Death [Thanatos] and Lethe with oblivious stream, mankind thy genuine brothers justly deem.

With fav'ring aspect to my pray'r incline, and save thy mystics in their works divine.