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The Orphic Hymns, Hymn 80: Come from snowy Thrace

The hymn to Boreas, the North Wind, sung over frankincense. He is called to come down from Thrace, the cold land to the north of Greece.

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• 80.1 Come from snowy Thrace. Of Boreas. Incense: frankincense. You who shake the deep air of the world with…
• 80.3 Make all the sky clear. and break up the cloud-filled stillness of the moist air, fanning the rain-born water…

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