Orphic Hymn 4: To The Heavens

The Fumigation from Frankincense.

Great Heav’n, whose mighty frame no respite knows,
Father of all, from whom the world arose :
Hear, bounteous parent, source and end of all,
Forever whirling round this earthly ball ;
Abode of Gods, whose guardian pow’r surrounds
Th’ eternal World with ever during bounds ;
Whose ample bosom and encircling folds
The dire necessity of nature holds.
Aetherial, earthly, whose all-various frame
Azure and full of forms, no power can tame.
All seeing Heav’n, progenitor of Time ;
Forever blessed, deity sublime,
Propitious on a novel mystic shine,
And crown his wishes with a life divine.