Orphic Hymn to Apollo

Bless paean and propitious to my prayer, illustrious pow'r of Memphian tribes revere

Slayer of Tityus, God of health, Lycorian Phoebus, fruitful source of wealth

Spermatic golden lyre the field from thee receives its constant rich fertility

Titanic, Grunian, Smythnian I sing, python destroying, hallowed

Delphian king, rural light bearer and the muse's head

Noble and lovely, armed with arrows dread

Far running, Bacchian, two-fold and divine

Pow'r far diffused, course oblique is thine

O Delian king, whose light-producing eye views all within and all beneath the sky

Whose locks are gold, whose oracles are sure, whose omens good reveals and precepts pure