Hymn XXXVI: To Diana

Hear me, Jove's daughter, celebrated queen,
Bacchian and Titan, of a noble mien :
In darts rejoicing, and on all to shine,
Torch-bearing Goddess, Dictynna divine.
O'er births presiding, and thyself a maid,
To labour pangs imparting ready aid :
Dissolver of the zone, and wrinkled care,
Fierce huntress, glorying in the silvan war :
Swift in the course, in dreadful arrows skill'd,
Wand ring by night, rejoicing in the field :
Of manly form, erect, of bounteous mind,
Illustrious demon, nurse of humankind :
Immortal, earthly, bane of monsters fell,
'Tis thine, blest maid, on woody mounts to dwell :
Foe of the stag, whom woods and dogs delight,
In endless youth you flourish fair and bright.
O universal queen, august, divine,
A various form, Cydonian pow'r, is thine.
Dread guardian Goddess, with benignant mind,
Auspicious come, to mystic rites inclin'd ;
Give earth a store of beauteous fruits to bear,
Send gentle Peace, and Health with lovely hair,
And to the mountains drive Disease and Care.