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One for sorrow<br />
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Two for luck<br />
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Three for a wedding<br />
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Four for death<br />
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Five for silver<br />
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Six for gold<br />
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Seven for a secret not to be told<br />
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Eight for heaven<br />
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Nine for hell<br />
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Ten for devil's own sell<br />
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ORPHIC HYMN 9 TO SELENE<br />
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To Selene, Fumigation from Aromatics. <br />
Hear, goddess queen, diffusing silver light, <br />
bull-horned, and wandering through the gloom of night. <br />
With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide night’s torch extending, <br />
through the heavens you ride: <br />
female and male, with silvery rays you shine,<br />
and now full-orbed, now tending to decline. <br />
Mother of ages, fruit-producing Mene, <br />
whose amber orb makes night’s reflected noon: <br />
lover of horses, splendid queen of night, <br />
all-seeing power, bedecked with starry light, <br />
lover of vigilance, the foe of strife,<br />
in peace rejoicing, and a prudent life: <br />
fair lamp of night, its ornament and friend, <br />
who givest to nature’s works their destined end. <br />
Queen of the stars, all-wise Goddess, hail! <br />
Decked with a graceful robe and amble veil. <br />
Come, blessed Goddess, prudent, starry, bright, <br />
come, moony-lamp, with chaste and splendid light, <br />
shine on these sacred rites with prosperous rays, <br />
and pleased accept thy suppliants’ mystic praise.<br />
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