The Fumigation from Storax.

Proteus I call, whom Fate decrees, to keep
The keys which lock the chambers of the deep;
First-born, by whose illustrious power alone
All Nature's principles are clearly shewn:
Matter to change with various forms is thine,
Matter unformed, capacious, and divine.
All-honored, prudent, whose sagacious mind
Knows all that was, and is, of every kind,
With all that shall be in succeeding time;
So vast thy wisdom, wondrous, and sublime:
For all things Nature first to thee consigned,
And in thy essence omniform confined.
Come, blessed father, to our rites attend,
And grant our happy lives a prosperous end.

Translated by Thomas Taylor.