Orpheus - The Hymns of Orpheus - XXIV: To Proteus lyrics

PROTEUS I call, whom Fate decrees, to keep The keys which lock the chambers of the deep; First-born, by whose illustrious pow'r alone All Nature's principles are clearly shewn: Matter to change with various forms is thine, Matter unform'd, capacious, and divine. All-honor'd, prudent, whose sagacious mind Knows all that was, and is, of ev'ry kind, With all that shall be in succeeding time; So vast thy wisdom, wond'rous, and sublime: For all things Nature first to thee consign'd, And in thy essence omniform confin'd. Come, blessed father, to our rites attend, And grant our happy lives a prosp'rous end.