Orpheus - The Hymns of Orpheus - LXIX: To The Furies 2 lyrics

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Orpheus - The Hymns of Orpheus - LXIX: To The Furies 2 lyrics

HEAR me, illustrious Furies, mighty nam'd, Terrific pow'rs, for prudent counsel fam'd; Holy and pure, from Jove terrestrial born And Proserpine, whom lovely locks adorn: Whose piercing sight, with vision unconfin'd, Surveys the deeds of all the impious kind: On Fate attendant, punishing the race (With wrath severe) of deeds unjust and base. Dark-colour'd queens, whose glittering eyes, are bright With dreadful, radiant, life-destroying, light: Eternal rulers, terrible and strong, To whom revenge, and tortures dire belong; Fatal and horrid to the human sight, With snaky tresses wand'ring in the night; Either approach, and in these rites rejoice, For ye, I call, with holy, suppliant voice.