Hear me lord of the stars
For thee have I worshipped ever
With stains and sorrows and scars
With joyful joyful endeavor
Hear me o lily-white goat
Crisp as a thicket of thorns
With a collar of gold for thy throat
A scarlot bough for thy horns
I praise the luxuriant rapture of innocence
I praise the crowned and conquering child!
Who being manifested is the player upon
The sevenfold pipe the great god Pan!
And being withdrawn into the perfection
That he willed… is silence!
Ancient one confirm my troth with thee my will inspire
With secret sperm of subtle free creating fire!
Mould thy very flesh as thine renew my birth
In childhood merry as divine enchanted Earth!
Dissolve my rapture in thine own a sacred slaughter
Whereby to capture and atone the soul of water!
Fill my mind with gleaming thought intense and rare
To one refined outflung to nought the word of air!
Most bridal bound my quintessential form thus freeing
From self be found one selfhood blent in spirit being!
Hear me o lily-white goat
Crisp as a thicket of thorns
With a collar of gold for thy throat
A scarlet bough for thy horns
I praise the luxuriant rapture of innocence
I praise the crowned and conquering child!
Who being manifested is the player upon
The sevenfold pipe the great god Pan!
And being withdrawn into the perfection
That he willed… is silence!
Ancient one confirm my troth with thee my will inspire
With secret sperm of subtle free creating fire!
Mould thy very flesh as thine renew my birth
In childhood merry as divine enchanted earth!
Dissolve my rapture in thine own a sacred slaughter
Whereby to capture and atone the soul of water!
Fill my mind with gleaming thought intense and rare
To one refined outflung to nought the word of air!
Most bridal bound my quintessential form thus freeing
From self be found one selfhood blent in spirit being!
Nought becomes all to realise the span
Of nought o perfect Universe of Pan
(To Meta Ophion)