Blest Pæan, come, propitious to my prayer,
illustrious power, whom Memphian tribes revere,
Slayer of Tityus, and the God of health,
Lycorian Phoebus, fruitful source of wealth.
Spermatic, golden-lyred, the field from thee
receives its constant, rich fertility.
Titanic, Grunian, Smynthian 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, twofold, and divine,
power far diffused, and 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,
who, omens good revealst, and precepts pure:
Hear me entreating for the human kind, hear,
and be present with benignant mind;
For thou surveyest this boundless aether all,
and eery part of this terrestrial ball
Abundant, blessed; and thy piercing sight,
extends beneath the gloomy, silent night;
Beyond the darkness, starry-eyed, profound,
the stable roots, deep fixed by thee are found.
The world’s wide bounds, all-flourishing are thine,
thyself all the source and end divine:
‘Tis thine all Nature’s music to inspire,
with various-sounding, harmonising lyre;
Now the last string thou tun’ft to sweet accord,
divinely warbling now the highest chord;
The immortal golden lyre, now touched by thee,
Receives a Dorian melody.
Nature’s tribes to thee their difference owe,
Changing seasons from thy music flow
Hence, mixed by thee in equal parts, advance
Summer and Winter in alternate dance;
This claims the highest, that the lowest string,
the Dorian measure tunes the lovely spring.
Hence by mankind, Pan-royal, two-horned named,
emitting whistling winds through Syrinx famed;
Since to thy care, the figured seal’s consigned,
which stamps the world with forms of every kind.
Hear me, blessed power, and in these rites rejoice,
and save thy mystics with a suppliant voice.
Orphic Hymn to Apollo on YouTube
Orphic Hymn to Apollo on Bandcamp
Orphic Hymn to Apollo on Spotify
Orphic Hymn to Apollo Chord Chart
Orphic Hymn to Apollo for Kalimba
Orphic Hymn to Apollo KS Guide (Kimberly singing softly in background so you can practice karaoke)
The Orphic Hymns 