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Great Diana protecteth us,

Maids and boyhood in innocence.

Maidens virtuous, innocent

Boys, your song be Diana.

Hail, Latonia, thou that art

Throned daughter of enthronis'd

Jove; near Delian olive of

Mighty mother y-boren.

Queen of mountainous heights, of all

Forests leafy, delightable;

Glens in bowery depths remote,

Rivers wrathfully sounding.

Thee, Lucina, the travailing

Mother haileth, a sovereign

Juno; Trivia thou, the bright

Moon, a glory reflected.

Thou thine annual orb anew,

Goddess, monthly remeasuring,

Farmsteads lowly with affluent

Corn dost fill to the flowing.

Be thy heavenly name whate'er

Name shall please thee, in hallowing;

Still keep safely the glorious

Race of Romulus olden.